Building the D Minor Chord on the Guitar

Video Transcript

"MICHAEL PLUNKETT: Hello. 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 D minor shape. Again, really similar to our D major shape, we remember that. In order to make a chord minor, we take our third scale degree, which was before an F sharp, and we make it flat. We bring it down to a flat 3. In this case, it was bringing our F sharp down to an F natural. So, everything else stays the same. We've got our D, A, D and then we just have that F. Now we're on the first fret of that string instead of the second fret. Again, looking at our scale degrees, we've got 1 that was our D, 5 our A, we had another D down here and then now we've got out flat 3 there. In order to play it, it's going to be a little bit different. Instead of using our first finger to play that A as we did before on the major, we're going to use our second finger; in this way, we can get out first finger back to easily hit that F natural or just the F on the first fret. That's our F there. Putting it all together, we've got the D, A, D and the F natural there at the end."