[Music] hi there perfecting the caster here and welcome to my youtube channel I hope you have a great day so today I'm going to show you a fun way to get to know the notes of your fingerboard a little bit better using different chord shapes now if you haven't mapped out your fretboard notes yet I highly recommend that you watch my music theory for guitarists video first before continuing with this video you can get to that video by clicking on the card above or it's probably somewhere in the recommended videos either here or down there if you've been playing guitar for a while and know and play these Barre chord shapes and their corresponding minor forms chances are you're already familiar with the notes on the fifth and sixth strings so today I'm going to give you other chord shapes that you can use and incorporate in your playing that have their roots on the other strings namely the fourth third second and first this way we get to know the notes on those respective strings and have a practical application in our playing you'll see the chord shapes right here we'll start with the fourth string then go to the third then the second and the first I will give you several versions of each chord both major and minor and towards the end let's talk a little bit about augmented and diminished chords here's a quick recap for those of you who just started playing Barre chords or who are about to learn about Barre chords our first shape the e shape it takes its name on the note based on the sixth string or otherwise known as the lowest note off the chord shape so whatever note this is that's the name of the chord 6th string 3rd fret that is a G note then this is AG Barre chord [Applause] same sound as the G open court now if you want to change course all you need to do is move the shape around let's say the chord progression goes from G to a find the a note on the sixth string which is on the fifth fret that is you're a barre chord now using this system you can actually play all the chords that you leaned G a C D C sharp B flat F sharp F and so on the corresponding minor version of this chord is you just take the middle finger off and bar across with the index finger and same thing if you want an a-minor go to the a note play that shape there B minor C minor D minor okay now the second bar chord shape that you've probably already encountered is the a shape Barre chord this one right here now this shape takes its name from the note on the fifth string that is the lowest note of the shape so in this case this is AC a barre chord because 3rd fret fifth string is AC note and if you move it up two frets higher you got to be that's a D barre chord same as the D open chord shape move it up you have an e ya but F move it up still you have a G you have a G down here I have another G up here and so on and so forth and of course the minor version of that shape is so now you have a C minor you have a B minor it up you have E flat minor so whatever note is on the fifth string that is the name of the chord when you use this shape now we need to start basing our root note on the other strings so starting on the fourth string so this is a G this is another G note [Music] the chord shape that would work nicely with this is this one okay this is a major chord and for those of you who have keen eyes yes this is a chord fragment meaning it used to be part of a larger court the first chord I showed you today I'm just taking the notes on the 4th 3rd and 2nd strings of this chord shape now I'm going to mute the surrounding strings so that when I do a full strum they don't ring out and destroy the son of the court so that's a G now that we're looking at the 4th string we are now forced to use that as our reference string so this is G we'll get up 2 frets you got a move it up two frets yet B move it up one fret you get C and so on you get the idea this is a major shape now to turn this into a minor we're going to take the second note the note on the third string move it down a fret here okay since that's an awkward fingering I think I'll just do a partial bar with my index finger that way the index finger covers both the second and the third strings and you can move that around so that is the minor version so let's move on to the third string for a third string root I use the following chord shape this is a major chord shape and again for those eagle-eyed this is the top part of this chord shape earlier okay [Music] so this is your root 5th fret third string is a C so G a B C that is a C major chord moving up D major a major F and so on and so forth to turn this into a minor chord shape like with the previous chord we're going to take the second note of the shape this time on the second string move it down a fret now you have this shape which is the upper part of so this time we're using the third string as a reference for our chord roots so see II minor D now let's move on to the second string a perfect chord shape for the second string is the D chord the D shaped chord the root is on the second string for this shape now if we move it around of course then we're gonna change chords so this is D this is now e F G a so if let's say we have chord progression d AG can play the normal vanilla way or [Music] and the minor version also corresponds so this is D major from the root then the next note up move it down a fret now we have D minor shape so let's say we have D a minor G D a minor [Music] now let's move on to the first string as our root I usually use this chord fragment this is a major chord third fret first string is a G key thus making this a G major chord for those of you with keen eyes this is actually the fragment of the ishe Barre chord that we talked about earlier just the top three notes and to turn this into a minor we're gonna move the second finger down like we did earlier so now we have G major move it up two frets a major move it up two frets B let's turn this into a minor B minor a minor G let's do a G a minor B minor C progression here's another option for a first string root this shape right here we're gonna you play the root on the first string with our pinky and we're gonna bar strings two three and four with our index finger three frets behind it so yeah one two three bar until the fourth string [Applause] name is based on the first string so this is a key a b c c chord major move it up two frets d move it up two frets e and so on I'm not gonna give you a minor version of this because it's going to be a little too stretchy but if you want to try anyway well here's what you're gonna do so we're just gonna play the top three strings pinky on the eighth fret C index finger on the fourth fret second string ski flat and second finger on the fifth fret third string they'd be just another C [Applause] major/minor so this is only if you want to challenge yourself but for all intents and purposes it's not that practical now let me show you one of my favorite chord fragments to use this shape right here so I'm just barring across the fourth the third and second strings and this is part of this bar chord shape right here I'm just using the inner strings and the root is on the third string so G a B C C chord D E flat D flat B and so on now to turn this into a minor shape we're going to take the note on the second string and move it down a fret that's your minor shape which is a fragment of this minor Barre chord now I have another favorite chord fragment this time based on the second string and that is this shape right here this is a fragment of a c-shape so I'm just using the notes on the fourth the third and the root is on the second string so this is PC D that is the D chord move it up that's an e weight up one fret that's an F and so on and so forth to turn this into a minor we are going to take the lowest note off the shape and move it down a fret that makes it a minor E minor D minor I really like these two chord fragments because they are easy to grab and they're also easy to play so I can go from C to an app just by putting down my second and third fingers and for all you classic rock fans yes that is the Rolling Stones guitar riff move so you'll get a lot of mileage from these two chord shapes now to round off this video lesson I would like to talk briefly about diminished and augmented chords now here is a diminished chord shape [Music] and this is an augmented chord shape now the thing that is special about these quartz shapes is that every single note of the chord can function as the root of the chord so in this case I'm playing the fully diminished shape starting on the e so that can be an e diminished shape or the second note would be a b-flat this can also work as a b-flat diminished chord or third note is a D flat can work as a D flat diminished and the fourth note is a G and that can work as a G diminished E diminished salt F B flat diminished or a sharp diminished resolve to be C sharp diminished or D flat diminished soft D G diminished resolve to a flat so if you move this chord shape three frets at a time you're going to get the same exact notes in a different order so let's take this e diminished chord again and we have a B flat B flat G one two three starting on the G next note is a D flat that's an e this is a B flat sax same know it's different order move it up to b-flat one two three this is an e this is a G this is a D flat and whip it up one two three this is a D flat that's a G that's a B that's an e and if I move it back to e 1 2 3 that's the octave is that amazing now let's work on the augmented for augmented you move four frets at a time so the notes are C e G sharp and this is another C move up four frets one two three four and keep the same chord shape now we have the G sharp C and E same exact notes and if I move this to G sharp four frets again we have G sharp C E G sharp again so now you have [Music] it's great now application the best way to force ourselves to start using the other strings for your chord roots is to get a chord progression that you know by heart and and find different versions of those same chords kind of like what I did at the beginning of this video where I played G D and C chord progression I started out with the open cord versions of the progression C then I moved to the bar chord version then I moved to another version of the same three chords G [Music] like this version right here I'm using the G based on the second string B based on the first string and C based on the fourth string okay and you can keep going [Music] have fun with it so there you have it I hope you enjoyed this video and I hope it opened up some new avenues for you to explore as far as the guitar goes have fun mastering the notes on the fret board and have fun spicing up your playing with these chord shapes if you want to support me and my channel please consider buying your own practice makes perfect to t-shirt links are in the description box below get yours now if you 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