So now, we will take a look at the Minor chords. We have looked at five Major chords that are very important and widely used, so we will look at some of the Minor counterparts now.
As you play your Minor chords, you will notice a difference in sound; they tend to have a more sombre sound and that's one of the first things people notice about them.
The first one let's look at is the E-minor. We started with an E-major chord at the beginning of these segments. To do an E-minor, we are simply going to remove the first finger from that third string and still strum six strings. Now, the third string will be open. So you notice that has a little bit sadder of a sound, so that gives us our E-minor and incidentally, most songs have Major and Minor chords in them.
There are a few songs that just have Major chords but generally you will find Major and Minor. So, it's a good idea to have all of these chords down well.
The next chord we will look at is the D-minor. We have looked to the D-major, stays on one more right sounding D-major chord. For the D-minor, we are going to have the first finger on the first fret of the first string, the second finger on the second fret of the third string and you can use either your third finger or your fourth finger, whichever is more comfortable on the third fret of the second string and so, you can hear that sound, sadder kind of sound coming out of that? And once again, if you are having a trouble fretting that, you may want to bring your hand around, to make it easier to arch that third or fourth finger. We are just going to strum four strings on that just like the D-major chord.
The last Minor chord we will look at is the A-minor. So we had looked at the A-major chord with its different fingerings, the A-minor, we are just going to take the first finger and put it on the first fret of the second string, the second finger on the second fret of the fourth string and the third finger on the second fret of the third string and we will strum five strings. So we hear that sadder sound on that A-minor chord.
You notice that this fingering is identical to the E-major; we just move the E-major one string down towards the floor, so there is the A-major when we move down again, we get the A-minor.
So with these eight chords that we have outlined, you will be able to play hundreds, literary hundreds of songs and so this would be a great thing to spend most of your practice time on as you begin, you will get a good foundation of being able to get chords quickly and as you have the chords memorised, it will make learning songs much faster.
In our final segment, we will look at just a couple variations that you might see commonly on these eight chords that we have looked at.
G-chord, C-chord, A-minor and D-chord make up the song. I will leave my first and second finger in place, my ring finger slides into the second fret of the third string.
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