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Welcome ladies and gentlemen. Welcome. This is James Corbett of Corporate Report.com. And it's time once again for elementary music theory in the great outdoors with yours truly. James

Corbett. All right class does everyone have their guitar? Good. Because today we're going to learn

all about the variations on a D-cord

that you can do in the open position on guitar.

Are you ready?

Let's go.

First, you're going to want to mute the E, low E and A strings. However

you want to do it is fine. I tend to wrap my thumb around, but just as long as

those strings aren't ringing out, should be okay.

And then we're going to start with the D string.

You can just let that one ring open, just like that.

That's obviously going to be the root of our chord. So we have the D, and then the next with your first finger on the second fret of the G string you're going to play an A.

That's the fifth of the chord.

And then there's going to be another D up here on the third fret of the B string.

That's obviously another D, it's a root, but it's an octave higher.

And then here comes the magic. You remember from last time, folks.

The third of the chord is where the magic happens, and this is where we determine a major or minor tonality.

So in this case, we're going to put a major third on. That will be the second fret of this e-string. It going to be an f-sharp and when we put the

f-sharp on then suddenly we have a d-major chord. What a jolly little chord.

But What a jolly little chord.

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