Building the G Minor Chord on the Guitar

Video Transcript

"MICHAEL PLUNKETT: Hello. This is Michael Plunkett on behalf of Expert Village. Now we're going to take a look at our G shape and manipulate our scale degree notes into making it a minor chord, and this time it's actually quite a bit different from our G major shape. Before you saw that we had our B or a third of the scale up here, we're actually moving in a different place now. Well, it's B flat now, that was our third and as you can see over here, we moved it down and we're playing in a different spot. So, we've got our G which is our 1 here on a 6th string. We're actually going to skip the 5th and the 4th strings in this case. We're not going to play them and I'll show you how we play that on guitar. And then we've got three in a row right here on the 3rd fret. We've got our B flat which is now our flat 3, our 5 the D and then G the 1. Those both stay the same so it's just that flat 3. And again, you can see them all here lined up skipping those two 4th and 5th strings. There's two main ways we can play this now on guitar. One, again, is to do a bar where we just take one finger and we lay it across all of those strings. Again, if you're really familiar with using a bar shape, it's a little bit easier. It's really easy to get to but it's a little bit tricky. You kinda have to train your muscles to do that to be able to hit those notes. This is also ideal if your finger picking or if you're just playing some of the notes at the time, otherwise, it can be tricky to mute those two inner strings. Another way to do it is to just take your index finger laid on the top one and then take 2, 3 and 4 and just lay then down on those strings. Now, here also, you want to make sure that you're muting these two strings so they're do not making noise so you can lay your index finger down over those so they get muted like that. And then when you strum it, you still get that G minor sound, again, hearing that flat 3, that real minor quality. That's the G minor chord."