Playing Versions 5 & 6 of a C Chord on Guitar

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Hi, Joe Wiles here with the Rock and Roll Conservatory, on behalf of Expert Village. We're going to learn the last version of a "C" chord. Where we left off was on the eight fret with an "E" chord form. Now this "E" chord form was playing a "C" chord if you recall. The very last version applying the rules of the CAGED method, we go to the highest fret we're currently fretting, in this case it's the tenth fret; we bar it, and then play the next chord form in the sequence. After "E", it's "D" - "C", "A", "G", "E" and then "D". We'll play this "D" chord now. You actually don't have to bar any "D" chord form, because you only strum from the "D" string down. So you only have to fret the tenth fret with your one finger. You don't have to bar anything. It sounds like this (playing), ok? That's the fifth version of a "C" chord. To put them all together, we're going to do the open "C"; the next version of a "C" chord with an "A" form on the third fret here; the next version of a "C" chord on the fifth fret using a "G" form; the next version of a "C" chord on the eighth fret using an "E" form; and the last version of a "C" chord using a "D" form on the tenth fret. Now as you can imagine, we can keep moving this cycle upward and upward and upward. We're going to talk about that more as we explore the "A" chord and the five versions of it. I'll see you there in the next segment.

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