How to play an Altered D Chord on Guitar

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Hi. My name is Joe Wiles with the Rock and Roll Conservatory. On behalf of Expert Village, I am going to teach you how to play a D Chord without your index finger. Here is how it goes. You are going to use your middle finger on the second fret of the G string, and then you are going to use your ring finger on the second fret of the high E string, and your pinkie on the third fret of the B string. This is the D chord without the use of your index finger. This important later on in the caged method. It should sound like this, strumming from your D string down. Freeing up our index finger, makes it to where this could be a D Chord or a D Chord Fourth. If you slide it up two frets, and bar the second fret, you get a whole other chord still using the D chord form. In the next segment, we are going to talk about some exercises just like we did the first time with the G, C, D, C, but we are going to do all those same exercises, using the chord forms, but without our index finger. I will see you then.

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