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For anyone wondering what the chords become when you move them two frets up from the root: 1. Cmaj -> Dmaj add9add11 2. Amaj -> Bmaj add11 / A 3. Gmaj -> A7 add11 4. Dmaj -> Emaj / D 5. Emaj -> F# 7 add11 / E All of these are lydian chord sequences (major 1 to major 2) and the dreamy sounds are added by the added 9th or 11th from the open strings. Moving from a major 1 to major 2 emphasizes the #4 in the scale which is the major third of the 2 chord.
@@DARKSIDEART2022 the 2nd and 4th scale degree but its octave so the 9th/11th. Example for the Dmaj the 9 and 11 added are E and G from the open strings, just one octave higher
One year-in playing the guitar and I just leaped miles ahead of where I was. Great lesson! Once I understood what movable shapes are, a lot of things began to make sense.
Thank you for the lesson here in New York City listening. I found a guitar on December 2nd 2021. I don't know why somebody threw it out but now I play the guitar and so here I am in TH-cam trying to get better with this beautiful instrument thanks again
Nice! Theory is not mandatory. If you want to learn it and have headaches you can but it's no necessary. I tried may times but too hard for me. This is way more fun and practical.
Thanks for a great lesson. It would be nice to see you use the chords in a complete progression to see how they combine to form a complete musical idea.
I've been doing the D chord slide for years. You can slide the D chord on up the neck and in some places it sounds great so make a note of those places. The D shape also sounds great in DADGAD tuning or open D minor.
You might want to spell the chord out for those learning. When you slide the C shape up 2 frets you're playing a D add 4th (G) add 9 (E). Beautiful chord!
I've said it on other videos, but I just have to say it again...I'm a seasoned guitarist,25+years behind me,and I must say, nearly EVERY video I have watched has been eye opening to what I allready know,thanks!🤟 its good stuff!
As a guitar teacher / band coach / musical director, i do a lot of that with intermediate level players looking for a more professionnal sound. Basic and simple tricks that make all the diffference. 👍
I love the way you do that without using all this terminology that other people do that I don't understand but I understand chords and tones thank you so much
That does sound really nice. Would the cord be the same cord or a different cord when you slide down? Is a C a C or a D or some more complicated cord. How do we know. Or does it matter? Thanks
The chord changes. When you move down the fretboard with the same patterns and bar the open strings, it moves from A to B to C and so on depending on how many frets you move.
If you move a C chord up 2 frets (one whole step) it becomes basically a D chord; an A moved up becomes a B chord etc. Dylan was a huge fan of using the C-shape D chord. Watch Girl From the North Country for an example.
It will be a complicated Chord. For example, if you had barred it while moving, a D would become E after moving two frets. But here the E will still have an open D string, which is flat 7 (7b) sound. Similar to other chords.
I love Your feeling analysis of the chords. I've recently learned Story In Your Eyes by Moody Blues, and ot uses shape shift chords like that in the intro. Yes it's magical. Good job.
For the D chord, you can further go up or ascend creating more surprises ! I found at least three more cool discoveries just with this D chord position, blending with arpeggios and strumming.
FYI... Moving a C position up 2 frets turns it into a D add9 with overtones... The Ozark Mountain Daredevils used this shape in a song called Colorado Song
Great video! I had been experimenting just recently in fact with this type of thing. Mainly actually with the two chords mentioned here. I took it down the neck 3 times. Granted, D got more difficult the closer the frets got together, but made the A more easy. For some reason it never occurred to me to try this with the C chord. I bet it gets easier to make the C chord shape the further down the neck you go. Thanks for this video! I've been playing a while, but still have trouble with chords. This was a nice reminder to give this a try with other chords besides just the two I was using.
Before I found about Eddie I bought the Hal Leonard guitar book with pictures and that was one of the best 14 dollars investment I've made. That book covers everything I need.
Great stuff, thanks a lot. You can get even more nice sounds moving e.g. the D-chord up not only two, but up four, five, seven, ... frets. This makes me try out a lot more.
Do Gsus4. I do the one all the time. You can also do Esus2. Move that one from the second fret to the fourth fret, and then to the seventh fret. I love that sound
Without context its difficult to know how to use it. If you play A and D at the 5th position, you will get the 2 primary chords used in Carly Simon’s “Legend in your own time”. Without knowing the key names
For the E chord shape, try moving it up 3 fret, 5 frets, 7 frets, and 12 frets. (Something like E major, and inversions of E minor 7, A 2 or A add 9, some sort of B7 / 5 type thing, and E octave?)
Or even E major shifted up just 1 fret, for an Andalusian feel. Move E major shape from fret 0 to 1, 3,´back to 1, 0 - and you think you play Flamenco.
I'm going to use common sense and use this method the same way. My acoustic guitar got stolen and I have a new one on the way. When I learn these I'm going to use them on my electric guitars because I have a acoustic guitar amp and two electric guitar amps with acoustic mode and excellent clean choices.
Think what root note is 2 frets higher than the root C. It's D, it's a D Major with an added 7 and suspended 4th. The unfretted G is the suspended 4th and the unfretted E is the 7th. Try the EMaj shape on the 6-7th frets and on the 8-9th. Been playing this sort of stuff for over 3 decades. Simples to me, just try moving each shape and see what sounds nice. Then add a hammer on or two.
Moving the C up two frets gives a D add 2 add 4 - it's not a suspended chord because the 3rd is still there, and it's not really a 9th or 11th because there's no 7th. The A shape you could think of as B add 4 with an A bass, or A6 add 9 #11 (no 3rd). The G shape you could think of as an A11. The D shape is an E7 or E/D. The names aren't really important though.
As goes music, every song has already been written, every note has been played! The only original parts to a song that can be original are things such as the tempo/beat, vocals, harmonies & of course the lyrics !
Excellent lesson. Can you also provide another lesson that would be SO helpful? There are many different ways to name one chord. Can you give us a few different names per each beautiful chord and explain WHY they are called that? I've been struggling with this for years. I just subscribed after seeing this ONE video. WELL done!
WRT the second trick (open A shape). Check out "Mihalis" by Dave Gilmour (off his first solo LP from '77 but there's also a live version on YT somewhere).
Somehow, I was thinking of '90s movie soundtracks each time he moved a chord. I wonder if that's what movie scores were in the '90s. Now I will be watching those movies and listening for it!
Most guitarists play by ear and are not as interested in theory, but rather what the chords sound like when writing a tune. There was a guy named Jimmy Page that used similar chords quite a bit and most likely never took to time to determine the name. Not sure but I think he did pretty well by that method.
These teacher's are the best at explaining what they are doing and they actually care about all of you player's that's why they teach so well. My grandson is starting to play and says he understands what you're teaching and I appreciate too.
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For anyone wondering what the chords become when you move them two frets up from the root:
1. Cmaj -> Dmaj add9add11
2. Amaj -> Bmaj add11 / A
3. Gmaj -> A7 add11
4. Dmaj -> Emaj / D
5. Emaj -> F# 7 add11 / E
All of these are lydian chord sequences (major 1 to major 2) and the dreamy sounds are added by the added 9th or 11th from the open strings. Moving from a major 1 to major 2 emphasizes the #4 in the scale which is the major third of the 2 chord.
Thanks for the explanation. The video sort of implied that you're playing the same chord when moving up two frets when that is not really the case.
Thanks ! I was wondering that, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.
9th or 11th what, exactly, are you adding?
@@DARKSIDEART2022 the 2nd and 4th scale degree but its octave so the 9th/11th. Example for the Dmaj the 9 and 11 added are E and G from the open strings, just one octave higher
Great info 👍
This guy knows how to give a lesson...short, simple, and to the point.
A C7 @ the 5th fret is an interesting E chord inversion.
One year-in playing the guitar and I just leaped miles ahead of where I was. Great lesson! Once I understood what movable shapes are, a lot of things began to make sense.
Thank you for the lesson here in New York City listening. I found a guitar on December 2nd 2021. I don't know why somebody threw it out but now I play the guitar and so here I am in TH-cam trying to get better with this beautiful instrument thanks again
I've mentioned before that I can't afford his lessons personal so I save all his YOU TUBE lessons and practice them. You the man Eddie.
Nice! Theory is not mandatory. If you want to learn it and have headaches you can but it's no necessary. I tried may times but too hard for me. This is way more fun and practical.
Thanks for a great lesson. It would be nice to see you use the chords in a complete progression to see how they combine to form a complete musical idea.
I've been doing the D chord slide for years. You can slide the D chord on up the neck and in some places it sounds great so make a note of those places. The D shape also sounds great in DADGAD tuning or open D minor.
You might want to spell the chord out for those learning. When you slide the C shape up 2 frets you're playing a D add 4th (G) add 9 (E). Beautiful chord!
Just getting back into guitar..and as a beginner.. wow the possibilities with something so simple! Very cool.
I've said it on other videos, but I just have to say it again...I'm a seasoned guitarist,25+years behind me,and I must say, nearly EVERY video I have watched has been eye opening to what I allready know,thanks!🤟 its good stuff!
sometimes its just hearing the same concept stated in a different manner.
@@chinto50 ..I believe you're right,sir.
Those are some gorgeous chords, thanks for sharing!
As a guitar teacher / band coach / musical director, i do a lot of that with intermediate level players looking for a more professionnal sound. Basic and simple tricks that make all the diffference. 👍
I love the way you do that without using all this terminology that other people do that I don't understand but I understand chords and tones thank you so much
Another great Eddie H lesson....fun chords to play with...thanks Eddie/GMM
I wrote a number of songs back in the 80s with this trick. Got a lot of puzzled looks from other guitarists!
amazing ... truly blew my mind.. great help ..well done you.
He's the best guitar teacher ever especially online.
Oo they're nice eh!
You can also use the C "shape" starting on the 8th fret of the B string.
Sounds good, I played these before but didn't realize I could actually do something with them. Thanks
That does sound really nice. Would the cord be the same cord or a different cord when you slide down? Is a C a C or a D or some more complicated cord. How do we know. Or does it matter?
Thanks
The chord changes. When you move down the fretboard with the same patterns and bar the open strings, it moves from A to B to C and so on depending on how many frets you move.
If you move a C chord up 2 frets (one whole step) it becomes basically a D chord; an A moved up becomes a B chord etc. Dylan was a huge fan of using the C-shape D chord. Watch Girl From the North Country for an example.
It will be a complicated Chord. For example, if you had barred it while moving, a D would become E after moving two frets. But here the E will still have an open D string, which is flat 7 (7b) sound. Similar to other chords.
@@HappyGoLucky_03 I was wondering about those open strings.
@@HappyGoLucky_03 So this will be E7 then. :)
Moving that d chord up two frets reminded me of Fleetwood Mac 🎸👍🏴
Heart
Sara by Stevie Nicks...
Nice lesson.Thanks
I love Your feeling analysis of the chords.
I've recently learned Story In Your Eyes by Moody Blues, and ot uses shape shift chords like that in the intro.
Yes it's magical. Good job.
I’ve learned a lot just watching your videos here. So I subscribed for more and it’s really helped my playing.
Agreed! It's giving me great ideas
thank u so much mate🍻🍻🍻
Thank You!
Nice one
i apprecited, it sound great
The A chord moved up two frets, i use this progression for Evergreen ❤😂,thanks for posting, aTH-cam ❤
For the D chord, you can further go up or ascend creating more surprises ! I found at least three more cool discoveries just with this D chord position, blending with arpeggios and strumming.
Hey Billy, you also learned some of the CAGED system! Pretty sneaky eh?
@@icanhaslolsplz man, thanks I didn't even realize it, So humbling.
Powerful chords
The "spa" chord? :-D :-D Love it!
I love all your videos
Thank you !! They better do that when I try it lol ♥️💿
A very useful tip. Thank you.
Thanks for the lesson
Sliding the D shape up is the beginning two chords of Extreme's song Hole Hearted from the Pornograffitti album.
Very true n the travelling wilburys " end of the line " intro is played using the d chord sliding🤗🤗
Thanks for sharing your talent master, i have a learn from you.,✌️✌️✌️
FYI... Moving a C position up 2 frets turns it into a D add9 with overtones... The Ozark Mountain Daredevils used this shape in a song called Colorado Song
Cheers M8
DUDE!!!! THANK YOU!!!
ADDING SOME 7TH STUFF TOO!!!
Great video! Thank you for sharing. Have a happy day!
Great video! I had been experimenting just recently in fact with this type of thing. Mainly actually with the two chords mentioned here. I took it down the neck 3 times. Granted, D got more difficult the closer the frets got together, but made the A more easy. For some reason it never occurred to me to try this with the C chord. I bet it gets easier to make the C chord shape the further down the neck you go. Thanks for this video! I've been playing a while, but still have trouble with chords. This was a nice reminder to give this a try with other chords besides just the two I was using.
Before I found about Eddie I bought the Hal Leonard guitar book with pictures and that was one of the best 14 dollars investment I've made. That book covers everything I need.
Great video I actually have got something out of that going from basic to almost Steve Vai sounding chords...
Great video
Great suggestions, you know what? I subscribed your channel.
Love this🙏
Excelente tutorial
Great tips thank you.
The two chords @3:43 for a few seconds reminds me of a Rush lick, something from Hemispheres or A Farewell to Kings
Well done I will use this technique for years thanks to you.
Thanks
Sweet!
I’ve seen a lot of improvement since I’ve started
Amazing +
Keep playing
Cool video.
C up two frets is the pretty chord from the prechorus of Jumper by Third Eye Blind.
Awesome. Thank you!
Nice one
Very clever.... Thank you.
Thanks u ed
I am not a beginner but I was not aware of these and I am grateful! Thank you very much. :)
Great stuff, thanks a lot. You can get even more nice sounds moving e.g. the D-chord up not only two, but up four, five, seven, ... frets. This makes me try out a lot more.
Do Gsus4. I do the one all the time. You can also do Esus2. Move that one from the second fret to the fourth fret, and then to the seventh fret. I love that sound
Without context its difficult to know how to use it. If you play A and D at the 5th position, you will get the 2 primary chords used in Carly Simon’s “Legend in your own time”. Without knowing the key names
That's good sir....😍🤗
Very stylish, excellent positive presentation, cheers!
Great Lesson ,Thank You , Paul
For the E chord shape, try moving it up 3 fret, 5 frets, 7 frets, and 12 frets.
(Something like E major, and inversions of E minor 7, A 2 or A add 9, some sort of B7 / 5 type thing, and E octave?)
Or even E major shifted up just 1 fret, for an Andalusian feel. Move E major shape from fret 0 to 1, 3,´back to 1, 0 - and you think you play Flamenco.
@@PapaOystein That's true - especially if you use your fingers in a 'drumming' fashion on the stings!
Move them up 3 more for another position! Thanks
BEEN PLAYING SINCE THE 60's KNOW A LOT OF COOL OR STRANGE CHORDS BUT NEVER THOUGHT OF MOVING UP THAT FULL G!
Thanks Eddie, I like this lesson!!! Sounds cool.
I just bummed into this channel and I'm really learning alot✍️✍️
A million thanks to such a brilliant & simple spice up. As an appreciation to you....i just subscribed!!😀
I'm going to use common sense and use this method the same way. My acoustic guitar got stolen and I have a new one on the way. When I learn these I'm going to use them on my electric guitars because I have a acoustic guitar amp and two electric guitar amps with acoustic mode and excellent clean choices.
Thanks...a very useful tip.
So what are the names of the new chords?
Think what root note is 2 frets higher than the root C. It's D, it's a D Major with an added 7 and suspended 4th. The unfretted G is the suspended 4th and the unfretted E is the 7th.
Try the EMaj shape on the 6-7th frets and on the 8-9th. Been playing this sort of stuff for over 3 decades.
Simples to me, just try moving each shape and see what sounds nice. Then add a hammer on or two.
Moving the C up two frets gives a D add 2 add 4 - it's not a suspended chord because the 3rd is still there, and it's not really a 9th or 11th because there's no 7th.
The A shape you could think of as B add 4 with an A bass, or A6 add 9 #11 (no 3rd).
The G shape you could think of as an A11.
The D shape is an E7 or E/D.
The names aren't really important though.
The names are oooh! Chords
Thanks :)
Oh great 😌 You weren’t supposed to give away the secret 🤫 Now everyone knows Everyone’s gonna end up writing the same song lol
Yeah I've been seeing this one pop up in a lot of videos 😅 like, don't give away all the secrets
As goes music, every song has already been written, every note has been played! The only original parts to a song that can be original are things such as the tempo/beat, vocals, harmonies & of course the lyrics !
C chord is Sugar Mountain, Neil Young.
You can also do it with an Emj , moving it up and down the neck.
Excellent lesson. Can you also provide another lesson that would be SO helpful? There are many different ways to name one chord. Can you give us a few different names per each beautiful chord and explain WHY they are called that? I've been struggling with this for years. I just subscribed after seeing this ONE video. WELL done!
Please do more Beautiful Cord's
Really amazing 🔥
R.E.M.'s "Man on the Moon" is based on that C sliding up 2 frets to D -- sounds just like it when you play it.
WRT the second trick (open A shape). Check out "Mihalis" by Dave Gilmour (off his first solo LP from '77 but there's also a live version on YT somewhere).
It sounds goo!
so cool. Thanks for sharing.
The first one on the C chord, Ricky Medlock (from Blackfoot) did that in 1979 on "Highway Song". Very tasteful..
Thanks much! Gonna try this tomorrow morning. You impressed me already. :))
They sound even better if you make the effort to eliminate the squeek when moving them. Guitarists, don't be lazy!!!
I like how you said: "90's movie soundtrack" haha. I always thought they sounded like those daytime soap operas at grannie's house lol.
Somehow, I was thinking of '90s movie soundtracks each time he moved a chord.
I wonder if that's what movie scores were in the '90s. Now I will be watching those movies and listening for it!
I love it... Thank you for that
Most guitarists play by ear and are not as interested in theory, but rather what the chords sound like when writing a tune. There was a guy named Jimmy Page that used similar chords quite a bit and most likely never took to time to determine the name. Not sure but I think he did pretty well by that method.
REM’s Man on the Moon uses the C shape slid up to D position :)
Love This!!!!!!! Gonna do this on my electric guitar with effects on my Fender Champion 20 amp, gonna has fun with this!!!!!!!
Thanks, it is helpful, but how do you know how to put together a progression of these nice sounding chords?
Yeah. Nice! I subscribe you!
These teacher's are the best at explaining what they are doing and they actually care about all of you player's that's why they teach so well. My grandson is starting to play and says he understands what you're teaching and I appreciate too.