How to Play an A Minor Chord on Electric Guitar

Video Transcript

"Hi this is Tom, this is for expertvillage.com and we're talking about short cuts to playing the electric guitar. We've talked about three bar chords. The last bar chord I want to show you is based on an A minor chord. If you're taking guitar lessons A minor is played like this. What we do for rock and roll is we bar it. So, we take our index finger, place it across the fret. Then what I do is on my second highest string I use my second finger, tucked in one fret up. These two fingers here I place side by side two frets up on the next strings. That's on the G sting and the D sting. As you can see it looks like a little A minor and then with this bar you get something like this. Now, notice that I am not playing this, my lowest string. I start playing one sting in. Actually, it's a little bit pretty too if you leave the little finger off you get an A minor seventh chord. Sounds just a little bit different. There's the A minor. Little finger tucked in there. With the little finger off, Dube Brothers use that right? That is the A minor bar chord. Now you know four different bar chords and that's all you really need to play rock and roll."