Crabgrass - Posted - 01/22/2010:  09:17:19

I'm having trouble finding minor and 7th chords up the neck. Are there standard or base chord shapes (similar to the F & D shapes) that would be moveable up the neck for minors & 7ths?

Crabgrass - Posted - 01/22/2010:  09:24:09

Didn't notice the post from Captruss earlier today. It gave me what I was looking for!

Tam_Zeb - Posted - 01/22/2010:  09:28:02

Hi Gary

I think John Boulding covered a lesson on this a while back on LOTW

Tam

Crabgrass - Posted - 01/22/2010:  09:49:06

Thanks Tam - Any idea what would be the best way to find that?

Tam_Zeb - Posted - 01/22/2010:  09:53:23

Here's a link to all John's video's

http://www.jsutergraphix.com/LOTW/

You might wanna bookmark it.

Crabgrass - Posted - 01/22/2010:  09:56:32

Thanks so much

Texasbanjo - Posted - 01/22/2010:  12:21:27

Yes,there are movable chord shapes for minors. If you know how to make an Am down the neck, you can move it up chromatically by moving up one fret to A#m, Bm, Cm, C#m and so on.

The "most used" minor would probably be the Em at 989 -- as used in Sally Goodin and you can count up from there for an F, G, A and so on minors on up the neck.

Does that help on finding minors?

steve davis - Posted - 01/22/2010:  12:37:14

I think of minor shapes as variations of major forms.
3 basic shapes just as there are with majors.

D shape gets its 1st string flatted for the minor
Barre chord gets 2nd string flatted for the minor
F shape gets its 3rd string flatted for the minor.

GHohwald - Posted - 01/22/2010:  12:42:34

There is a detailed video lesson that includes downloadable printed information. It shows the minor chord shapes in the video and the 7th chord forms in the downloadable material.

http://www.freeguitarvideos.com/ban...1-1-2-3.html

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Originally posted by Crabgrass

I'm having trouble finding minor and 7th chords up the neck. Are there standard or base chord shapes (similar to the F & D shapes) that would be moveable up the neck for minors & 7ths?

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Crabgrass - Posted - 01/22/2010:  13:20:54

Thanks for all the great feedback. This is exactly what I needed.