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Summary: How to understand E Open 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. We're now going to go ahead and take a look at our E shape in the open position. Again, that's the lowest position on the neck that we can play this chord shape in. So, we're going to start. This time we are going to be using the 6th string, that's that O, it's telling us to play it open or to just pluck the string without pressing down on any frets. From there on the 5th string, we're going to use our second finger on the 2nd fret. On the 4th string, we're going to use our third finger on the 2nd fret. On the 3rd string, we're going to use our index finger here in the first fret so just one fret back. And then easy enough, we get these two, we just play those open also. We don't want to press down anything. Again, this one, the only thing to really be aware of is with your third finger. Make sure it doesn't roll back and hit the 3rd string. And with your first finger, you want to make sure that you can really leave those open and that's really going to come from using the tips of our fingers playing right on the very--our fingertips when we play that. So when we lay it all down, you can again see that I'm really on the tips of my fingers, not letting them touch any of the strings right next to them. When I roll it down, it sounds like this. That's the E open shape.
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