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Summary: How to understand G Movable in guitar chords and shapes; get professional tips and instruction on playing guitar and music theory in this free music lesson video.
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Michael Plunkett Michael Plunkett is pursuing a B.M. in Music Therapy from Arizona State University. Michael has been playing guitar for 10 years and has been teaching for two... read more
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Questions & AnswersMICHAEL PLUNKETT: Hi. This is Michael Plunkett on behalf of Expert Village. Now, we're going to go ahead and take a look at our G shape in the moveable position. Again, this is where we can take the same basic concept of the shape of out fingers but we can move it around anywhere we want on the neck. This one's a little bit trickier. It's actually a little bit different than our original shape was. Now, we're going to be taking our fourth finger and placing it again, wherever we would on the neck. Remember, since it is moveable, whatever fret we start on, could really be any fret as long as it's not on the end of the neck. So, we start with our fourth finger there on the 6th string. This one is somewhat optional. It's a nice sound that's part of the chord, but it's a little bit tricky to actually play that third finger on the 5th string sometimes. If you were to leave it out and just not play that string at all, it doesn't sound too bad. But the real trick to this chord is getting this. Now, this is what we call a hinge bar. It's when we're playing multiple strings with just one finger. We have to take our index finger here and lay it across all three of these strings. It's not an easy thing to do, it's going to take a little bit practice, but if you can get this shape into the moveable position and use it, it can be definitely helpful when playing a lot of the chords that we use on guitar. So, we'll lay it down. I'll actually do it both with and without the third. We take our 4th finger here on the 6th string. Our third's going to go on the next fret above and below it. And then two frets back, we're going to lay our index finger down across three different strings, it's going to sound like that and again, our high E is not being played in this chord. We could also just do it without in which case I will just lay my pinkie down over that string so that it doesn't make any noise, and it just takes that out. It's a little bit easier to play it sometimes like that. That's our G moveable shape.
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