Now, those were some open position major chords. Now, we're going to talk about open position minor chords. Now, the difference between major and minor quite simply put is the third degree. If we take the third degree in the middle of those chords, and we lower it one half step or one fret, we wind up with a minor chord. For example, do you remember that major scale that we played, C? [MUSIC] And we wind up with one [SOUND], three [SOUND], and five [SOUND]. And we played that, and we have a major chord. If we were to take the third degree, which is the E [SOUND] and we just lower it, [SOUND] a half-step, which is one fret on the guitar, and we played 1, flat 3, and 5. We would wind up with a C minor chord [MUSIC]. This was C major [MUSIC] and this is C minor [MUSIC]. The major is described as having a happy sound [MUSIC] and the minor is often described as having a sad sound. [MUSIC] Major, [MUSIC] and minor, [MUSIC] and the only difference is that one half step. [MUSIC] Now, in the same way we had some very simple open position major chords, we have some very easy open position minor chords. And the formula is as, is exactly the same. It's one Three and five, but we flat the third degree. We lower it by one half-step, or one fret. One of the easiest chords, open position minor chords, is the A minor chord that we learned the first lesson. This is an A minor, open position chord. [MUSIC] Now, if we start from the root, on the fifth string, [MUSIC] we have A, which is one. We have the E, which is five. [MUSIC] We double the root on the third string, second fret with another A. [SOUND] And we have a C natural, which is the flat third. [SOUND] And then we have the E on top, which is our 5. Now, if you remember, our A Major chord sounded like this. [SOUND] That C sharp, which is the third. [MUSIC] We lower a half-step, and we wind up with an A-minor chord. [MUSIC] Open-position chords allow you to use the open strings as part of the chord. [MUSIC] And we can double the fifth, which is the E on this sixth string as an open string. [MUSIC] It's a full, rich sound. [MUSIC] That's an A minor open position chord. We can do the same thing for E minor. We start off with the root. We have the fifth which is the B. On the fifth string second fret. We double the root. On the third string second fret. And we have a flat third with the G open string, third string. Five which is a B, open string and then we have the root again doubled at the top. [MUSIC] So we wind up with an e minor open position chord. Now if you remember, when we played our e major chord, this was our e major chord. [MUSIC] The g sharp, was the third in the e major chord. For the E minor we lower the third by a half step. [MUSIC] We get a flatted third and we have an E minor chord. We can do the same thing, for a D minor chord. Start off with a D which is the root, then have the A five. [MUSIC] Double the D again. [MUSIC] And then we have an F natural for the flatted third. [MUSIC] Now again, if you remember, when we played our D major chord, [MUSIC] we had an F sharp. [MUSIC] That was our natural three. [MUSIC] With the minor chord, we flat the third. [MUSIC] And we wind up with a D minor, open position chord. [MUSIC] So those are some open position, minor chords. You can practice those, just get used to changing between chords [MUSIC], you can try comparing the sound of the major to the minor. A major, A minor, E major. [MUSIC] E minor. And practice changing in between chords so that your fingers can get used to making those changes. Those were some open position major and minor chords. Now even with that smaller selection of chords, you'd be surprised to see the number of tunes that you can play. There are many tunes that we know and love That only have two or three chords in them. Now I'm going to talk about a device called the capo. Many of those open position chords are not what we call movable. So you couldn't take, for example, your A Major, [MUSIC]. And then, all of a sudden, move it up to the fifth fret, and play the same thing. And use the open strings. What a capo does is effectively moves the nut and the first fret to a different place on the fretboard. So here I have a pretty standard capo. If I were to place this on the third fret, I can play some of the open-position shapes that I played when I didn't have the capo [MUSIC] And I can play some of the open position chords. [MUSIC] [MUSIC] Now keep in mind that the chords, when you use the capo, even though they have the same shape, now have a completely different root, and therefore, a completely different name. So you have to be aware of where the root is in the chord so that you can know the names of the chords that you are playing. Now, there are ways to play other chords of course, in different places on the neck. There's a method that we can talk about, in the next section, where we can actually use our first finger, effectively as a [UNKNOWN] and that allows us. To play some of the shapes in a movable fashion, that's called a bar technique. And we'll talk about that in the next section.