Building the G Major Chord on the Guitar

Video Transcript

"MICHAEL PLUNKETT: Hi. This is Michael Plunkett on behalf of Expert Village. Now we're going to go ahead and we're going to take a look at our G chord shape or we've already seen the shape, but we're going to see how the notes and the scale degrees lie in there, and we're going to learn how to manipulate those to make other types of G chords. So, reviewing again, we find that to build the G major chord, we take our 1, 3 and 5 which, in this case, is G, B and D. And if you look through the whole chord, that's all it consists of. It got G, that's our 1, 3 B, 5 D and then we've got another one, G here, and another D and then G are 1 in our--I'm sorry--5 and our 1 here to fill out the full chord and that's the shape that we've used before. Again, looking here just to review are the actual scale degrees, and really we want to be able to think of these one when we're playing them so that way come time to manipulate the chord, we know exactly what notes we want to change. This will save us from memorizing many different types of shapes and still keeping within our CAGED structure. So, we can think G, B, D, G, D, G, the notes themselves, and also the scale degrees, 1, 3, 5, 1, 5, 1, and that's our G major."