How to Play Movable Blues Guitar Chords: Part 2

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. Okay, so I'm just very quickly going to demonstrate the E barre chord, the A barre chord, and the B barre chord., and the E movable chord is where you put your third finger on the seventh fret of the A string, your second finger on the sixth fret of the D string, your little finger on the seventh fret of the G string, and your index finger on the fifth fret of the B string. And you can kind of muffle the low E note with your thumb. Now you don't really have to do that because this is an E chord and it fits, but if you're going to play an E flat, then you don't want that note to ring. So this is your E chord, and, you see, you can move it anywhere. The A bar chord is like this. Okay, you use your index finger and your barring, this is called the "barre," you take your second--I mean your third finger on the seventh fret of the A string and your second finger on the sixth fret of the G-string and that's the A7 chord. You can see you can move it anywhere. And then the B7 is the same as the A7, only you slide it up two frets. So you got your E, your A, and your B."