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Building the A Minor Chord on the Guitar

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Summary: How to build the A Minor chord on the guitar; get professional tips and instruction from an expert on playing guitar, reading music, 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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Building the A Minor Chord on the Guitar

MICHAEL PLUNKETT: Hello. This is Michael Plunkett on behalf of Expert Village. Now, we're going to take a look at our A minor shape; first, how we make that with the notes themselves with the scale degrees and then I'll even show you how to play it on the guitar, of course, too. So, if we again look back at our scale degrees, we find that to make a minor chord, we take our 3rd scale degree and we make it flat or put it down just one note. So, if we look at that here, we've got our A, it's our 1, our 5, our E, and our A, those all stay the same. Again, I already have it up there. We just take our 3rd which was C sharp before and we're just bringing it down one fret, so now it's a C natural. And if you look here on the scale degrees, again we've got 1, 5, 1. Now, we've got our flat 3 there on the 1st fret, and our 5. And in order to play that on guitar, we change our hand position just a little bit. We're going to use our second and third to play those E and A on the 4th and 3rd strings, and now we're just going to use our first finger to play that C natural on a 2nd string 1st fret, and it's going to sound like this. You can hear the difference in there too. There's our flat 3rd. It really gives it a little bit of a darker quality to the sound. That's our A minor.

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