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Finding minor chords

Finding minor chords

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Finding minor chords

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- [Mike] Okay, it's time to start talking about minor chords. I'm going to now show you the G, the C, and the D and I'm gonna show you how to transform those into minor chords. Right now, they're major chords. A minor chord has a flat third in it. Without getting deep into the theory of what all that means, simply bring your first finger back one fret. From the B note to a B flat note, from the second fret to the first fret and you've got yourself a beautiful G minor chord. It's that spooky sound. (haunting banjo music) Now, you do the same thing with the C chord. You've got this two finger C. If you simply bring the first finger back, one fret to the first fret, you've got a C chord. Now the thing with this is you can't let the E string ring open. I would play this just the bottom three strings when you play this C minor. Don't even play the top string, unless you can bar the third fret. If you can find a way to bar that then it's okay. But otherwise, just mute that top string. The…

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