How Do You Play Tin Pan Alley Chords On Guitar?
“Hi, I’m Rick Tobey on behalf of Expert Village and this is blues progressions part three. So with ‘Tin Pan Alley’ we start on a A minor chord. It’s a very slow song, and you can lift up your index finger if you want to kind of get that B string to play open a few times. It changes to a D minor and the way we do that is you’ve got your A minor chord, and you simply lift up all your fingers but you keep them low close to the strings. Your index finger is going from the first fret of the B string to the first fret of the E string. The third finger is going from the second fret of the G string to the third fret of the B string and your second finger is going from the second fret of the D string to the second fret of the G string. And then you simply go back to the A minor again. So lift your fingers up and keep them close. Notice how these two fingers can kind of move together. You can see that, they’re just kind of sliding over there and as your doing that this finger is sliding to over