Playing E Major Guitar Chords on the Low E String: Part 1

Video Transcript

"RYAN LARSON: So now we're going to look at our first couple or our first set of voicings and we're starting on the low E string as our root. And we wrote out in tab our voicings for our three most major chords, we have our major chord, our minor chord and our 7th chord. And we're going to start here with our E major chord and this is way up there in the 12th fret. If you're playing on a standard classical guitar, it might be a little up--up high too, so you could maybe slide it down a couple frets but the pattern stays the same and that's the beautiful thing about tab. So we have our 12th fret here on the bottom and out 13th fret, 14th fret, 14th fret. And you know, I also put the 14th in there as an alternate note. So if you look at my fingers now, we have 12th fret, 13, 14, 14 and I put the 14th in, you can play the 5 here and get this. And again I have my pointer finger here, index finger here and ring finger right there. And if you put your pinky there, you can use your ring finger as that 5. This might take some time to get under your fingers so you can use this first. And then in the other chord, we wrote down is 12, 12, 13, 12 or it should be right here, 12, 13, 13, 12. And you can write these chords down at home. We're going to write here again. So we have 12 and this should 13, 12, 13, 13, 12. And again, all these chords are movable so you really want to get the pattern under your fingers."