How to Play Movable Blues Guitar Chords: Part 1

Video Transcript

"RICK TOBEY: I'm Rick Tobey, and in this series we will be learning how to play blues progressions and a blues song on behalf of Expert Village. Now, what we've learned so far was playing an E blues progression with open chords, the E7, the A and the B7. These are open, meaning that there are open strings in the chord. But there is also a way to play it where there are no open strings; these are called "movable chords" or "barre chords," and the reason is that you can then change the key. If you're going to play Little Red Rooster in E, you could play it open. But if you were going to play "Little Red Rooster" in a different key, let's say D, you might want to play it with the barre chord. So these chords are good because you can play any song in any key. And in the next lesson, we'll learn how to play these specific chords, the E, the A, and the B as a movable or a barre chord."