Basic Guitar - The D Minor 7th Chord

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Franklin Taggart
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Franklin Taggart is a guitarist, singer/songwriter, recording engineer and record producer based in Silver Spring, MD. He's played guitar since 1975 and has been involved in some aspect of performing, recording and composing ever since then. He also is a well known guitar teacher in the Washington, DC area. He has been nominated for many WAMMIE awards from the Washington Area Music Association, winning the Traditional Folk Instrumentalist category in 2001. His first CD Falling All the Way has received excellent reviews from a variety of sources and was also nominated for seven WAMMIE's.

Basic Guitar - The D Minor 7th Chord

This is a video collection of fingerings for many standard guitar chords that easily describe how to place each finger to successfully make each chord.

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Hi, I am Franklin Taggart and I am a guitar teacher and a guitar player. I would like to show you a D minor 7th chord. Your first finger is going to play two strings simultaneously. Its going to play the first string and the second string, both on the first fret. Your middle finger is going to play on the second fret of the third string and youre going to strum the bottom four strings. And thats how you play a D minor 7th chord.

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