(jazzy guitar music)
- Hey, I'm Nate Savage with Guitareo.com.
In this video, I wanted to share with you
ten fancy guitar chords for beginners.
I call them fancy for beginners because
they're all really cool chords that I didn't learn
until later in my guitar career but they're all
based on your basic open chords.
So I wanted to share them with you so you could start
incorporating them into your playing.
Now if you don't have your basic open chords down
and you need some help with that, check out the link
in the description or below this video for
the beginner guitar Starter kit.
That's going to help you out a lot.
Alright, let's go ahead and get started
with this first chord.
It is based off an open D Major chord.
All it is is the D Major 7 chord, so it's going to
give you a little bit jazzier sound.
A major 7 chord is going to take the root,
this root right here, this D note
and just lower it by one half step.
What you end up doing is just barring
the top three strings.
So you can play it like this,
like an A chord moved over.
Just bar the top three strings
and that's all you have to do.
Just change that one note to get a D major 7 chord.
Just like your open D chord,
don't play the low E or A string.
You go from this, open D major to a D major 7.
A pretty mellow sound and pretty jazzy.
The next chord is kind of based on this same
D shape and we're going to make a D6.
Now, a 6 chord is when you just take the 6th out
of a major scale and add it to a major chord.
We're going to continue this trend.
We started with a D, a D major 7.
What we're going to do is take this middle note
right here on that B string and lower it two frets
and all you have to do to make that happen
is let that open B string ring out.
You're just going to be fretting those two notes
you would have a D chord, you're just basically
taking a third finger off and
letting that B string ring out open.
Then again, just play the top four strings.
That is a D6.
A good way to practice this is to go from a D,
D major 7,
and then a D6.
Next chord, C major 7.
I really like this one because it's
super easy to make.
If you know how to make an open C major chord,
all you have to do, remember, I said to make a major 7 chord
you just have to take a root note of
whatever chord you're playing
whatever major chord you're playing,
and lower it by one half step.
This is a root note here with your index finger.
All you have to do is take that C note, lift it up
and play the open B string.
B is half step below C.
So you end up going from a C major,
regular C major,
to a C major 7.
C.
C major 7.
To give you a chord to go along with that C Major 7,
let's learn an F major 7.
A lot of people struggle with an F bar chord.
And sometimes, this chord that I'm going to show you,
can be substituted for the F major 7.
It depends what Key you're in
but if you're in the Key of C major,
you could totally use this.
You just have to make sure it sounds good
with whatever melody you're playing
and make sure it fits.
But C major 7, if you want to make
an F major 7, all you have to do.
Top four strings, just right in a row.
So, third finger.
Third fret.
The D string and go back one fret.
Next string over.
Second finger.
Second fret of the G string.
Your first finger is going to grab the first fret
of the B string.
That's just a major triad.
You can use that for an F chord if you like
instead of a bar chord.
Then the open high E string, puts a major 7 there
because it's a half step below the root.
There's an F right there.
Half step below.
Just play the top four strings
and don't worry about the low E or A.
And switching back and forth between
a C major 7 and an F major 7
is a really good chord progression.
F major 7.
Back to C major 7.
The next couple of chords we're going to go over
are based on an open A major chord.
The first one is an A7.
You may know this already
but this is kind of a stepping stone
to get to the next chord we're going to talk about.
Let's go ahead and go through an A7.
It's really easy if you can make an open A major.
All you have to do is lift your
middle finger off to put a G note in there.
That open G string.
Really good for the blues, right?
Instead of an A, regular A,
I'm going to just blues it up a little bit.
Just take that middle finger off that open G.
Now, in addition to this, the next chord
we're learning is an A13.
This is one that I didn't learn until
much later in my guitar journey.
And all you have to do is add the 13th note
or if you get to the octave,
eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve.
Thirteen, it's the sixth note of a major scale.
If you have your A7, the sixth note of
an A major scale is going to be an F sharp.
Just right here with your pinky.
All you have to do,
is make an A7 and then put your pinky
down on the second fret of the high A string.
You can tell how that gets a lot more funky.
Just more funky than just a regular A, right?
A7.
A13.
Next chord, an E add 9 power chord.
I like to think of this just as a regular power chord.
A and a B, right?
If you do a three note version of a power chord,
with another E in there, another root.
If you throw a note that's one step higher than
that note, in this chord,
that's the second note of this scale, or the nine.
It's kind of a little bit more moody.
A little bit more vibey than just playing
a regular E power chord.
The cool thing about this is, it feels just like
you're making like a B power chord right here.
Only you're throwing in that low E string.
It's really easy to use.
You can do the same thing on an A.
So A is the fifth
and then the ninth on top.
And you just go back and forth between those.
That's a great way to start using that
and it's movable
even though it is a bigger stretch.
This next chord is one I use a lot
but I didn't know for about the first
three or four years that I played guitar.
All it is is a C major.
We're going to put a fifth in the bass.
You have a G, right here, that you can use
that sounds really good.
Normally, I don't really like the fifth in the bass
in open chords but for some reason
the C sounds really good.
It sounds really rich.
What I have to do is, I put my third finger
over to the low E string on that G note
and then my pinky comes and takes the place
of that C note that I was using.
I particularly like this one when I'm in the Key of G.
Doing some thick strumming.
I really like the way that sounds.
The next chord, is what I call a D up.
It's just a version of a D chord that
uses this exact same shape.
You're just going to move it up two frets
to where your pinky is on a D.
You can call this like a nine, D9. Suss 4,
something like that, whatever you want.
All you're doing is taking the shape
and moving it up two frets.
It doesn't always work in every key that
has a D major in it but in the key of G.
The last chord I want to show you is one
of my favorite chords but I have two
versions of it for you.
The first one is easier to play.
The second one is a little tougher.
It's based off an open E shape.
If you can make that open E, all you have to do
is put the second scale to it or
the add 9, eight nine, or octave 9.
And there's an F sharp right there that is
the second note in the E major scale.
All we have to do is make an E major chord
and put your pinky down on that second scale
to get that F sharp, second fret of the high E.
That's a real easy way to make it.
If you want just a different color,
if you're playing an E major chord,
there's an E added to it.
That's the first version.
The second version, is a lot harder to play
because of the bigger stretch but I like it more
just because you're basically
taking the nine right here, that F sharp,
and moving it right there to the fourth fret
of the D string.
That's a good ending chord if you're
playing a song in the key of E.
A good ending chord.
So those are ten chords that I wish
somebody had taught me and explained to me
when I was first starting to play guitar
because they're kind of easy.
They're based on all those open shapes
that you probably already know.
And again, if you need help with making these
chords sound clean, or you know,
getting the transitions down,
you can always check out that link
for the beginner guitar starter kit below this video.
I'll see you later.