Mandolin V Chord Tips

Video Transcript

"So our final chord in our Blues is the five chord in the key of D. It's a, the chord A so we used that A Major chord to start off with. So this shape has the root up here on top and on the bottom just like the other two. So there's your A dominate chord, okay? We're going to move up the neck, here's an A and we're using this root here which we don't actually play so we just add the seventh. So the flat is seventh, excuse me, so you know, in this, in this particular case you don't have to lower the root at all. You're only theoretically lowering the root, you're actually just adding the flat seventh. In this one we're actually lowering the root ok? So by now we can look at all of them ok? And you can move each shape around so let's take a, we'll take this shape, our D dominate and we have a G dominate and our A dominate. You know, all the same shape so what I'd practice is moving all the three shapes around and we'll get to that in a minute."