Let us take a look at bar chords on the 5th string. Let us go back to our A major, open. (Demonstration) Notice how we have our second, third and fourth finger all in the same fret. When we bar this chord—let us move up here to C. We are going to bar the first five strings. You can actually use the tip of your finger to mute the 6th string. So, here is our bar. (Demonstration)
This time to make it a Major pattern, we are going to use our third finger. This is a little bit tricky but we want to apply pressure on these three strings—the fourth, the third and second string, but we want to leave the high E. So, let us just pluck one string at a time. (Demonstration) See how my fingers bent? This will take some practice. And then, move it up. (Demonstration) That is our major.
Now, let us look at our Minor. I am showing you A-Minor because this is using the 5th string. In this case, it is open. Let us go back up here to see. Let us bar these first five strings. We will use our minor pattern. (Demonstration) Now, the minor pattern on the 5th string is virtually the same as the major pattern on the 6th string. I do not want to confuse you but it is the exact same shape.
Then to go from our minor to 7th, what we are going to do is we are going to move our fourth finger to the second string. And again, here was our open A7. Here is our bar chord, this is C7. These are movable, so we can go up to D. Now, let us start all over from our Major, Minor, to the 7th.
Now, when using bar chords with 1-4-5 progression—in this case, if we use G, we are also going to have C it to be our fourth. D is our fifth and remember, we want to make our 5th chords, 7th. So, we have G, C Major, and D 7th. (Demonstration)
To play along, here is a little rhythm. (Music playing) Let us do that again a little slower. (Music Playing)
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