Open Minor Chords (Em, Am, Dm) | Beginner Guitar Tips

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chords that use

open strings are called open position

chords

now there's different types of open

position chords and today we're going to

take a look at

minor chords we're going to learn e

minor

a minor and d minor

now you'll notice by nature minor chords

sound a little bit more dark and a

little bit

sad in a way so they're really fun to

experiment with

so let's start by taking a look at e

minor

now e minor is using all six strings on

the guitar so we'll just strum right

through all of them

now to build this voicing we're going to

use our low e string open

followed by the second fret in front of

the a

right behind that we have our ring

finger second fret of the d

followed by the top three strings open

and that's our e minor chord

now moving on to a minor we're only

going to strum the top

five strings so from the a string down

meaning we're not going to play the low

e string at all so be careful you don't

strum that by accident

now to build our a minor voicing we're

gonna have our open a string

followed by our middle finger on the

second fret of the d

ring finger second fret of the g and

pointer

first fret of the b then we have our

high e string open

and we'll strum all five of those

strings together again from the a

string down

last we have d minor which is only using

the top four strings

so we're going to not want to play the

low e string or the a string so a little

tricky here we just got to be really

accurate with that right hand

now to build this voicing we have an

open d string

followed by middle finger second fret of

the g

string then we have our ring finger on

the third fret of the b

followed by our first finger on the

first fret of the high e string

now let's try putting all those together

into one chord progression

so we're going to use e minor

a minor and d minor

cool little strumming pattern let's try

this let's go

down down up up down

down down up up down

and we'll do that two times on each

chord so let's try that together

one two three four down

down up up down

a minor

d minor

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open position minor chords are a really

expressive awesome sound on the guitar

that you're going to use

all the time when learning tunes and

writing your own songs