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- Hey It's Livvy for Mamalarky.
And today we're gonna be talking about
basic barre chord extentions.
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A really good way to start off thinking about this
is to just play a minor bar chord, easy as pie.
So we're gonna go up to the seventh fret
or the third dottie dot
and we're gonna put all the strings down and bar it down
and then we're gonna add our ring finger on the ninth fret.
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Nice.
So that's cool, It could be kinda boring though.
So let's add some notes
to make it a little bit more interesting.
So a good way to think about that
is to think about the minor pentatonic scale.
So each string has two notes on it.
And I'll just call out
how many frets away from each other they are,
and they always come back to this seventh fret.
So, three frets, two frets, two frets, two frets,
three frets, three frets.
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You might wanna pause the video
and practice that a few times if this is new to you.
But if you already know that scale,
let's just throw it into our minor bar chord
and we'll use our pinky to do that.
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And let's incorporate some of those notes
with the top four strings particularly
that's usually where I find that
I want to use these extensions.
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Wow, that is more interesting
than the minor bar chord I'd say.
So let's see what it's like with a major bar chord.
So it's the same shape.
It's two frets down.
It's the same shape but you add a third...
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On the G string.
And instead of doing three frets away, oops.
Instead of doing three frets away for your extension,
you're just gonna do two frets away from the bard fret.
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So yeah, those are two really cool basic ways
you can incorporate this technique,
but let's take it a little further.
I'm gonna teach you a little picking pattern
that you can use.
And we're gonna be doing
some hammer-on pull-offs on these notes.
David T. Walker is a really renowned guitarist
that's amazing at this.
But I'm gonna do my best.
So the picking technique
or the picking pattern is,
E A E B E A B G.
And we'll just be doing...
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Those two little hammer-on pull-offs.
So here it goes.
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Very nice.
So obviously this little technique is,
you know using a lot of skills
that you've probably been building up as a guitarist.
Barring on its own is really difficult.
And it's worth mentioning,
if you're barring on an acoustic guitar,
it's gonna be a little bit more difficult.
And that's why, you know, like a Ventura Strat like this
is obviously really ideal because it's very agile.
So yeah, let's take that idea
and let's apply it to some different chord shapes.
I'm gonna be playing a minor seven chord
and a major seven chord higher up on the neck
and you know E A were the root notes
for those first two chords,
But now it's go to be A D.
So the picking pattern is,
A D E B A D B G,
A D E B A D B G.
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So let's hear how it sounds altogether.
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I don't know why I ended it that way.
You know player's choice.
And again, you can play this just.
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You know, strumming out these things.
I really like to use my hand.
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And finger pick.
But, you know anyone can do this any way they want.
I hope you enjoyed my fender lesson.
Maybe you walked away with something new.
Maybe you're refreshing something you already knew
but I really appreciate your time and, thanks.
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