How to Play Add 4 Guitar Chords

Video Transcript

"Here I'll be discussing an add 4 chord. As I mentioned, an add chord means there's no seven in the chord, so we're just going to use the number of the major scale that we're talking about, and add it into a major triad. Let's go to a C chord here. There's the C chord that we learned in the open chord series. Now we have a root, a third, the open G string is a fifth, another root, and the open E string is a third. Now, in order for it to be an add chord, you still need the root and the third, and the fifth in there, but you're going to also add a four. I've got two thirds here. There's an E here, and the open E string. Now, I'm going to turn this three, into a four. So I now have one, four, five, root, third. I have all the elements--a one, a three, a four and a five, to make a C add 4 chord."