How To Build Guitar Chords

A simple guide to chord theory on the guitar, using the D major scale as a basis for creating chords from notes of the scale. No guitar playing in this video - just theory! Covers major, minor, 7th, 9th, minor 7th, minor 6th, diminished and augmented chord construction.

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[cffgamboa]

Found your lesson to be extremely useful and enlightening, but I am having difficulty understanding how chords with extensions are built on the guitar, aside from their formula. Which notes are duplicated (ie 1st, 3rd, 5th or sometimes 8th)? When is one to usethe high 3rd or low 3rd (or 5th)? Thanks once again.

[HenfieldWill]

@cffgamboa Understood. There's no absolute formula here. Just find the combination of notes that suit the fingering and the stretch of your fingers. No point, for example, in picking out a pattern where there's a huge stretch between the fingers - choose appropriate notes that make the chord... :-)

[Jar0mir]

audio captions made me lol 1:03 c shop, 1:07 and can also be called d flaps so in this kind of see these black notes have two names

[HenfieldWill]

@Jar0mir I think your hearing must be defective....

[Jar0mir]

@HenfieldWill no, thats what automatic automatic audio captions said (dunno why i have that turned on)

[HenfieldWill]

@Jar0mir Good grief - I didn't know such things as automatic audio captions existed! :-)

[IndersGrowl]

Finally someone speaking my language! Thanks for the video!

[okability1]

dude im just scratching my head during the whole video..

[JohnDavis45]

Thanks for posting, I think this may well help me if I watch it enough times!! If it were slower giving more time to absorb the info....twood have been better from this end, and if I do eventually grasp it ....I have to transfer the info to my fretboard that is different to yours :(

[Amkies]

Thank you, you'r a great teacher!!

[Jar0mir]

@HenfieldWill go to your account settings and click on playback setup, then turn on "always show automatic captions" for fun in all kinds of videos; its NEVER right