From the course: Mandolin Lessons: 1 Fundamentals

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Finding moveable chords

Finding moveable chords

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Finding moveable chords

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- Okay, now we're gonna talk about movable chords, chords that you can move all over the fingerboard and I've shown you the G and the C and the D. I also showed you the A. Now what I want you to think about is when you look at that A shape, if you were to move it back two frets, then your finger was actually to be over the nut, you realize, oh my gosh, it's the same chord as the G. So basically, when we build the A chord, we're just bringing the G chord up two frets and our index finger is functioning as the nut was for the G chord. So, this is really our first bar chord and now, this is a movable chord. It can move anywhere on the fingerboard. The way you determine the name of it is by the root of the chord, which is A note, is this low A note on the second fret. So if you were to bring it up two frets, to the B, voila, you have yourself a B chord. The fourth fret being B. The fifth fret is a C note and that's now a C chord. At the seventh fret, it's a D chord and at the ninth fret…

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