Hey everybody this is Brian. Here to give you guys a free guitar lesson. Today I am going to talk about chord shapes for blues in this context but it works well for country, for jazz, for rock or pretty much any other style because they are all using chords and for all movable. And that is what you go to think of, is chords, the shapes and not as something you have learned from. A chord diagram or whatever because an E chord is the same as all these bar chords that you have launched, moves all the way up okay? A chord, same thing, moves all the way up, it does not matter where you play it the same pattern, the same shape is usable anywhere to get the different chord okay? So what we are going do is, we are going to stay in E or we are going to do a blues progression using four shapes that I have found work really well over blues because they are dominant 7th shapes. Dominant 7th is that bluesy chord that has that 7th in there.
Okay, and the first shape is, the open chord just like I am playing. The second shape is, based over the D7 that you just slide up two frets. The third shape is based over low, open chord of a B7 if that is the chord that you have learned before. You just slide it up to the 7th fret there and then, the fourth shape is based of an A7 open chord and you just slide it all the way up to the 9th fret. Okay, those are the four shapes that I am going to use today; there is a first shape, the second shape, third shape and fourth shape. If you want to a tab for that just go to the website, click the link on the side and you can get the full term for all of these and I am going to have it transposed for each of the different chords that we are going to use today but you should be able to just extrapolate it and all that. Well there is the A right there and then go from there.
So, we are going start of and just kind of a shuffle fill. First shape, second shape, third shape, fourth shape and you can go to A first shape, fourth shape, it does not matter, first shape for E, second shape, third shape for B, fourth shape for A, first shape for E and it does not matter really which shape you use, it is all up to you and it is kind of improvisational when you get to chord shifts so, I have an example on the website and I am going to play that real quick for you just to give you idea what you can do. And then just go on to whatever chords you got next which will be the A. I am just using those shapes that fit with the chord.
Those four shapes is all I use so, you can use that and pretty much come up with anything you want to and remember to think of the chords, its shapes not chord that you learned from a book so you can move it anywhere and use it over pretty much any chord and that is the key so, thanks for joining me for this lesson and there will be more so go to the website and check them all out. Thanks.
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