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The overall progression being outlined is Am7, G, Fmaj7sus2. On the guitar part playing the arpeggios, you will need to add the G note on the high E string also. After the Am7 chord, there is a short ...

Am, Em and Dm are minor chords (the lower case ‘m’ tells you this) and are darker and moodier. Black dots are root notes; red dots are other notes that make up the chords.

The usual chords in that key would be G, Am, Bm, C, D, D7, and Em and their variations. The most common “next-door-neighbor” chords in G would be F and A7 (frequent guests in the house of G).

But sometimes he plays a D/F# (pronounced D over F#) instead of a D chord, which puts an F# in the bass (the low, 6th string), which walks down nicely from the G to the Em chord.