Playing E Major Guitar Chords on the A String

Video Transcript

"RYAN LARSON: Now we're going to take a look at our three major chords as they--or our major and minor and our 7th chord-as they fall on the A string where this is the root right here, this string right here, right? Again, I could tire tab, be going from the top string from the low string and we're looking at the fret numbers here. So these are all our roots, and we're to start with our E major and we have 7th fret, 6th fret, 8th fret, 7th fret and I put--and you can use this as the fifth to go back and forth. And we'll look at the guitar real quick on that, so I have 7th fret right here and 6th fret, 8th fret, 7th fret. So again, middle finger, pointer's on the low string, pinky is on the 8th fret and then my ring finger's on the 8th fret. It's very nice, lush chord. And see how you can go to the lower 7th fret and get that 1 to 5. And now if I put my middle finger on the 7, my pointer finger on the 5 and then I bar 7, I get my minor chord, E minor. And if I move my pointer finger up, I get my 7th chord. So there's your minor and there's your 7th. So if we look how those are written, again we had 7, 5, 7, 7, 7, 7 for the E, E minor, and then we had 7, 6, 7, 7, 7, 7 for the E 7th chord. So those are your three prime chords for E major and again, we're just really looking at these patterns, all these patterns are movable. So you want to write this down so as we go through at home, you can reference back to this and play the appropriate chords."