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And here we are for Part 4, 
I haven't even moved yet.

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So in this one we're looking 
at A shaped barre chords.

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And we're going to be 
looking at the Minor version,

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The Dominant 7 version, 
and the Minor 7 version.

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So, I think without further ado I'm going to get ready for a closeup.

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See you in a sec.

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So here we are now, this is 
the 3rd fret we're on.

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And this is, this would be our C 
chord, our C barre chord.

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Again, remembering all 
of the way through this,

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If I tuck that finger 
away, you shouldn't do that,

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I'm just doing that to make it clear for 
you what the chord is.

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So, there's your, the good old C chord.

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Now if we want to make it a C Minor chord,

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if we think back to what we did with 
like our regular A chord,

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There was our A Chord.

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Am chord, looked like that, it's 
kind of like E chord isn't it?

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But on the wrong strings.

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So funnily enough, Cm shape is also.

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If we had a G barre chord 
with the 6th string group,

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Remember we did that 
in mastering barre chords 1.

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Give me a G chord at the 3rd 
fret, if we move everything down a string,

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we end up with Cm.

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Now this might seem a little confusing, the fact that this was a Major shape here,

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and a minor shape on these strings.

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But I'm assuming you never got 
E chord and Am chord mixed up.

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They're the same 
shape on different strings.

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So all you have to do is 
remember what string the Root note is on.

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With our E shape, like G Major chord, 
the Root note is here on the 6th string.

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But now that we're working 
from the 5th string Root,

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that same, or very 
similar shape, looks, or sounds,

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rather, looks and sounds 
and is, a Minor chord.

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This one, we've got 1st finger 
now doing the whole barre thing,

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so it's barring right the way down,

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cause it also needs to hold 
down the thinnest string as well,

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We've got 3rd finger here, 
this is on the 5th fret.

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It's on the 3rd fret, 
5th fret, 5th fret again,

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this is the 2nd finger here, 
pressing down on the 4th fret,

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and 1st finger is playing also 
the thinnest string up there as well.

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And of course our 1st finger 
is still muting that 6th string.

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'Cause we don't want 
that, if say for example,

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this Cm chord, if we 
forget to mute that 6th string,

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I mean it just sounds really rank,

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make sure you're getting the tip 
of that finger there muting that chord.

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Muting that note rather not the chord.

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Really, really important.

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Ok so that's Cm.

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So we had C Major,which is the 
one that everybody struggles with a little bit.

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So if you're falling into 
that category, be cool with that.

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You know, it is a hard chord.

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And then, we've got the Cm.

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Now to get to Cm7 is quite a nice 
one, all we do is lift off our little finger.

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Very nice little chord.

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So this is now,1st fingers playing 
the Root note here at the 5th string,

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and muting the 6th string, I 
keep repeating that because it's really important.

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3rd finger in the 5th fret,

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then on the 3rd string, we're 
playing that note with our 1st finger,

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2nd finger is playing the 4th fret, 
where it was before for the minor.

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And we're using the barre 
to play the thinnest string there,

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also on the 3rd fret. So 
it should be muted 6th string,

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Now remember those things about keeping your finger a little bit rolled on to the side.

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It's really helpful.

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Remember it's not flat like 
this, it's slightly onto the side.

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And also remember that this note here on the 
3rd string is gonna be the hardest one to get.

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So that you might need 
to make sure that you're pressing

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down quite nice and hard in order 
to get that note to ring out.

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Now the last one from my little 
series of looking at the 4 different types,

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is this one here, 
again that finger's normally there,

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I'm just tucking it down 
here to make it clear.

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You can see now little 
finger tucked in underneath there.

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So this is 1st 
finger muting the 6th string,

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then it's playing the 3rd fret, 
3rd finger on the 5th fret,

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1st finger will again be playing the 
3rd fret there on the 3rd string.

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Little finger down on the 5th fret,

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and the barre will be playing 
the 3rd fret on the thinnest string.

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That's your classic 
kind of Blues chord.

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So we have Major, remembering 
to keep that knuckle forward,

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that's the most important 
part of that. Major, minor,

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minor7, lift off little 
finger as well, and 7,

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where little finger goes down. So 
these two are kind of split,

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there's a string in the middle of 
them, going right the way through there.

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That's the 7.

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So they're your 4 types of A 
shape barre chord that you want to learn.

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First Major, minor, minor7 and 7.

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Mastering these 2 shapes, the 
E shape and the A shape,

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with the 4 different 
chord types of each shape,

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so it's a total of 
8 chords that you've got there.

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These form the foundation for 
all of your guitar playing,

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that you're probably going to do 
for the rest of your life.

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There are 3 other 
barre chord shapes, G shape,

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which is really, really, really 
difficult, and hardly ever used.

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C shape which is moderately difficult, but 
used a little bit, cause it's kinda useful.

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And D shape which is used 
in certain parts of that shape.

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But very rarely the whole thing.

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They're quite difficult and quite advanced.

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I wouldn't of thought that 
you'd probably want to learn those,

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until you'd been playing guitar 
for 3 or 4 years.

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And really, really confident with 
your guitar playing in general.

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And think most of, excuse me, 
your stuff like your Jack Johnson,

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and your Bob Dylan's, whatever 
it is, these kind of people,

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if they're playing barre chords,

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they're definitely going to be 
playing E shape and A shape.

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Very rarely will any of 
those other shapes get used.

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I'd say there's an 
awful lot of really fine,

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fine guitar players that don't 
know those other three shapes.

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They're really quite rare.

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So, the next thing for you 
to make sure that you do,

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is really, really 
nail these chords properly.

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I highly recommend getting a 
book like the Beatles Complete,

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is the one that 
I recommend the most strongly.

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Just the Beatles, are 
an amazing band, amazing songs,

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and really interesting 
chords and chord sequences.

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So, by going through that book, just 
open the book to a random song,

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and try and play it, make sure 
that you get all of those chords down.

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You might come across the 
occasional chord you don't know,

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remembering of course that you can 
do what's called boiling down chords.

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Say if you have a G11 
you could just play a G7,

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if you have a Gm9 you can play a Gm7 
or a Gm even if you boil it down enough.

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So, remember just subtract those notes, 
for the time being you could alter,

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if you see an altered chord, 
like a dom7#9 or a #5,

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you can just ignore it, and just,

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knock off any of those 
extensions that you don't know.

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The most important bit is 
whether it's major and minor,

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and whether it's sharp or flat.

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Like Gb7 would sound really 
horrible if you played G.

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So the # or b is to 
do with the pitch not the chord type.

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But the chord type can 
be muddled down a little bit.

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There's also for any 
of you Jack Johnson fans,

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there's a couple of really, really 
good tunes for practicing these chords.

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One I've already got up here 
which is Traffic In the Sky,

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beautiful, beautiful song for 
learning these barre chord shapes.

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Just cause it, you're picking out 
the notes one at a time.

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So you really have to make sure 
that you've got your barre chord down,

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like properly. And the other one I 
like as well for this is Gone.

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Which is just using E 
shape and A shape barre chords,

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with a sweet little picking pattern.

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I think both of those songs actually 
I've put up here on You Tube already.

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So you might want to go and check those 
out after you've practiced up your chord a bit.

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Don't jump into it, spend a 
bit of time on the chord.

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I recommend again just 5 
minutes a day with your timer,

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making sure that you do your 
proper concentrating 5 minute timer practice,

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just strum pickout and strum, just like 
you should have done with your open chords,

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to make sure every note is 
really clear, barre chords are difficult.

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Everybody struggles with them, but once you nail 'em the world is your oyster,

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as far as songs go because there's 
very, very few songs that you can't play,

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with your barre chords so if 
you've got your open chords down,

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and your barre chords down you 
can play a bit of rhythm guitar,

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you're well on your way. 
OK I hope that was helpful.

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Take care of yourselves, 
and I'll see you soon.

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Au revoir.