Hey there, if you're looking to learn the C minor 7 on guitar, you're in the right
place. I'll show you three versions. You pick the one that's best for you or
learn all three.
Hey I'm Tomas Michaud from Real Guitar Success. If this your first time here,
please subscribe to my YouTube channel. Today I'm gonna show you a C minor 7. Now
this is not one of the easier chords to learn for most beginning guitar players.
I'm gonna show you a fairly easy one. It's all relative and then a couple more
very useful ones as well, three versions. You can choose to learn all three or
just pick one that's best for you right now. So this first one is actually an
open chord meaning we don't have to use a barre chord. Now easy as a relative
term. Easy just means it's easier in this case than the other two chords for most
people that's not even always the case but it's probably not going to be easier
than a lot of the other open chords that you've learned. It might be just the
thing that you need though to play a song that you've been wanting to play
and if you're not ready for Barre chords so let me show you the fingering. We're
gonna put the first finger on the first fret of the fifth string, the second
finger on the first fret of the fourth string. skip the third string and put
your third finger on the second string first fret also. Everything is on the
first fret - that's a C minor 7. Now part of the tricky thing about this open
chord is that I can't play the first string or the sixth string. The way I
deal with that is I'm slightly angling my third finger so it just touches the
first string so it doesn't sound so you might accidentally hit it.
It's hard not hitting once in a while. Still I'm aiming to not hit. I do not
want that clicking sound. Now for the sixth string my first finger
is just slightly touching the sixth string so it's deadening out as well.
So if you really want to avoid bar chords this might be just the version
for you. Let's go on to the second version. The second version is a bar chord and
it's probably the most popular C minor 7th chord. It's by go to chord most of
the time. The third one is also very useful. We're gonna make a bar across the
3rd fret then put the second finger down here on the 4th fret 2nd string,
skip the 3rd string and then the 3rd finger goes on the fifth fret of the 4th
string mm-hmm sounds like --- the root note is here
in the 5th string. You can bar two different ways and I use both actually
just up to the 5th string which for some people is easier than a bar all the way
across the guitar. And then the sixth string is just kind
of deadening out because my first finger is slightly touching it
or you can also bar all the way across so the sixth string would actually play.
It's still a part of the chord so it's okay. A lot of time though I want to
start with the root note that's in the fifth string.
so I would strongly encourage you if you're even slightly inclined to learn
the barre chord version and learn barre chords in general because they're so
useful but I understand if it's not the right thing for you right now. I'm going
to show you one more bar chord and that's this is for people who've already
been playing bar chords or are willing to work on the bar chords. This one is
up higher on the neck and it sounds like this. Now this is particularly useful if
you're playing other bar chords especially in this area and you don't
want to jump all the way down here and then back up into this upper part of the
neck. I'm making a bar on the 8th fret of the guitar and then the only string I'm
fingering is with my third finger on the fifth string 8th 9th 10th fret that's
the note. The root is in the 6th string now.
Doesn't sounds pretty to me. This one rings nice and clean so practice the one
that's best for you now. If you want to fit one for a song use the one that's
the easiest for you to play. Eventually I will encourage you to learn all
three versions. They're all useful and depending on the situation. I did create
some chord diagrams on a sheet that you can download it's on my website. I'll
give you a link in the description here so you can get to this absolutely free.
Hey I have a quick question for you also. I'm wondering if you find this first
version easier than the bar chord version. I'm curious to see how many
people like which one. Leave me a comment down below. Thank you for joining me. I
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