So since B is our root and we are playing the major form, this is B major. Now, let's play B minor. Again, we will be using B as our root, 2nd fret of the 5th string, but we will be barring for the 5th string on down with our 1st finger. Then you are going to add your 3rd finger to the 4th fret of the 4th string, your pinky to the 4th fret of the 3rd string and your 2nd finger to the 3rd fret of the 2nd string. Then, again your 1st finger is going to be barring that 2nd fret here on the 1st string.
So if you are attempting bar chords for the first time, the thing you remember is that you want to keep it, you want to bring your thumb down so you have a lot of finger to work with. If your thumb is up here, you've shortened your fingers. Your major fingers are lot shorter, but you will notice that as I bring my thumb down, I have got a way more hand to work with.
So, you want to try at least having your thumb about midway on the neck or even just lower, the first time that you actually do a bar chord. So again this is B major and B minor. Then from that point it's just a question of changing the root. Let's come up here, let's make root C, A, B, C and then you do the major form from there. This is C major, C minor; root stays the same, just the form changes, C minor.
Come up to D, do the major form, D major, and then D minor. If we take D and we make it Flat, go down a half-step, that's Db major, Db minor, which is also the same tone, same pitch as C# minor. This would also be C# major. Come back to B, make it Flat. Bb is our root; we are going to do the major chord from there, Bb major, Bb minor.
Alright, congratulations! Now you can play major and minor chords using the 5th string as your root.
First phrase starts again with the 15th fret on the 1st string and then a pull-off from the 17th to the 15th fret and the 2nd string. We are going to play two beats of the F major this time and two beats of C in that 2nd major.
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