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The F-chord
Find chord shapes
These are diagrams for the E-major chord. It should be close to all playable position of this chord. For another, more general summary of the various Major Triad
Positions, go to my lessons on Chord shapes
and Sonic
Shapes.
For a general discussion on major chords, go to my Major chord
page
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| Voicing: 1-5-1-3-5-1 |
Voicing: 1-3-5-1-3 |
Voicing: 5-1-5-1-3-5 |
Voicing: 5-1-5-1-3-5 |
| F-shape |
This is an alternate fingering. You
play both 5th and 4th string with your third finger, which leaves the fourth
finger free. |
It is a matter of definition whether
this C-shape is a barré chord or a closed position. But I decided
to put it here. |
Bb-shape played with a
barré at 8th fret. |
This is an alternative fingering of the
same chord. You play a partial barré with your third finger. It is a
harder fingering to play, but very convenient, as i leaves the 2nd and 4th
finger free for other tasks. |
Closed
positions
These are moveable shapes, and you play no open
strings. (As you see, you may play the 5th string open). They are the kind of
chord shapes often flavored by jazz-guitarist. But as jazz guitarists usually
do not play basic triads, so we cannot really call them jazz chords. |
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Voicing:
5-1-3-5 |
Voicing:
1-3-5-1 |
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| Voicing: 5-1-3 |
Voicing: 3-5-1 |
| If we keep only the E/Am-shape,
we get at major chord in 2. inversion. |
.This is the last 3-string
fraction of the F-shape barré chord .
My imagination run out,
so I have no better name for this than the Partial
F-shape |
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| Voicing: 1-5-3 |
Voicing: 1-3-5 |
Voicing: 5-3-1 |
| We are still in the same position, and
these are three skip-string voicings that give full major triads. You can of
course combine shapes, but you should see which notes you have to include to
get full chords. |
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| Voicing: 5-1-3 |
Voicing: 1-3-5 |
Voicing: 3-5-1 |
Voicing: (x)-x-x-5-1-3 |
Voicing: (x)-x-3-5-1-5 |
| . It is the E/Am-shape
if you refer to Sonic
shapes |
It is the Bottom Major
Shape |
This is the chord in 1.
inversion.
It is the Middle
D-shape |
Here we are in 2. inversion
D-shape. |
This is another variation of 1.
inversion. I have indicated that you play the open 3rd string. But if you
skip this string, you have a moveable chord shape on 4th, 2nd and 1st
strings. |
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| Voicing: 5-1-3 |
Voicing: 1-3-5 |
Voicing: 1-5-1-3 |
| Still the same basic position as the
two previous, and you will probably recognize the A-shape.
But know we position ourself to climb up the fretboard.. |
This is the same as the previous, only
with another fingering. This leaves your other fingers free to play above the
basic chord. |
You should see the relationship between
this and the previous fingering: The same notes on 3rd and 2nd string, and then
the 1st finger on 1st string.
This is the Top Major
Shape |
Now we are closing the chord. It should
be a well known fingering, but limited to a closed position chord at the middle
four strings. You might use 2nd, 3rd and 4th for 4th, 3rd and 2nd string, if
you prefer this fingering. You can drop out the 4th string and still have a
proper chord. |
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| Voicing: 1-3-5 |
Voicing: 3-5-1 |
Voicing: 5-1-3 |
Voicing: 3-5-1-3 |
Voicing: 5-1-3-1 |
It is the Bottom Major
Shape one more time, but now on other strings. |
Here I have only left out the 2nd
string. (And I have to re-do the graphics. You should use your 3rd finger, and
not the 2nd as the diagram says, on the 5th string).
I have called this
The
Middle Minor Position. You might wonder why I call it a
minor shape when the chord is a major chord. But
the same shape gives a minor chord if you move it across to the 4th, 3rd and
2nd string, and this is the point with these Sonic
Shapes: The chord changes if you cross over to other sets of
strings. |
You have seen this before, but it is
included to make this position complete, and to show relations between
positions. |
Here the only difference is that we
play the 5th string with our 3rd finger. |
This is the Long-A shape, a very
useful position. Go to the Long-A
lesson in my Blues Guitar
series. The relation between The
Long A-shape and the Blues Scale is the topic of another lesson in the
same series. You should take a look at Key to The
Highway, for a typical blues arrangement with this chord shape. And
while you are branching out, take a look at a Simple
Blues Chord Solo to see how you may use some of these moveable
shapes. |
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These are two chord shapes that are "in between" the larger group two frets lower and one fret higher. They are some kind of "bridging position". You do of course see that you can combine the two, and what you end up with is a G-major shape fingering where you do not play the open strings. |
| Voicing: 1-3-5 |
Voicing: 3-5-1 |
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