Congratulations! You’ve made it to our last chord group. We still have more chords to learn later in the course, but we’re going to take a break from that. Once you are done with this lesson we’ll begin working on changing and strumming the chord we’ve learned.
The A Chord
We’ve already seen the A chord twice in previous lessons, but let’s recap:
Here’s how the A chord is formed:
- The A string will be played open
- Place your 2nd finger on the 2nd of the D string
- Place your 1st finger on the 2nd fret of the G string
- Place your 3rd finger on the 2nd fret of the B string
- Leave the high E string open
A
You’ll strum 5 strings- that is every string except for the low E string:
The A Minor Chord
The A minor chord is labeled as Am. It is formed as such:
- Place your 2nd finger on the 2nd fret of the D string
- Place your 3rd finger on the 2nd fret of the G string
- Place your 1st finger on the 1st fret of the B string
- Play the A string and high E string open
Skip the low E when strumming:
The A Seventh Chord
The A seventh chord is labeled as A7. This is how it’s formed:
- Place your 2nd finger on the 2nd fret of the D string
- Leave the G string open
- Place your 3rd finger on the 2nd fret of the B string
- You’ll also play the A and high E open
Again, strum every string except the low E:
The A Minor Seventh
The A minor seventh is labeled as Am7. Here’s how it’s formed:
- Place your 2nd finger on the 2nd fret of the D string
- Leave the G string open
- Place your 1st finger on the 1st fret of the B string
Strum all strings except the low E:
Your Assignment
- This concludes our chord groups- please review and recap all 5 chord groups, because in our next lesson we’ll start putting them to use