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Amaj7
A Major 7th Open
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Drop D Tuning Chords For Guitar
Drop D tuning is great, but playing chords requires some adjustment. This article contains several chord charts of chord voicings for drop D tuning. Getting tuned to drop D is a simple endeavor. The low E string is tuned down one whole step to D. The rest of the strings remain the same. You’ll end…
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Major Ninth Chords
A dominant ninth is a dominant chord with a ninth, but that’s not what a major ninth chord is. The major ninth chord (or just ninth chord), as an extended chord, typically includes the seventh and ninth along with the basic triad structure. Thus, a Cmaj9 consists of C E G B and D .…
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E Shape Barre Chord
Create a barre with your first finger on any fret. Pretend your finger is the nut of the guitar. Now use your remaining 3 fingers to play an E chord like in the Major chord below. The fingering is a little bit different, but the form is the same. E Major Open E Major Barred (audio example is…
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The Mel Bay F Chord
Question: In Mel Bays Chord encyclopedia he shows that instead of 5 major chords their are 6 the sixth one being F. xx3211. am i just not looking right cause mel bay and this site have total differences of opinion. Also some of his minor chords are different like on the site cm is written…
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Barre Chords
You cannot play every chord in the guitar’s open position. What if you wanted to play an F or B chord? How about an F# or Gb chord for that matter? You can’t do it without using a barred chord. There are 12 possible major chords and without barre chords you can only play 5…
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F#m (F sharp minor chord)
The chord diagram below shows an F#m guitar chord. It can also be called Gbm (G flat minor). This form is using an Em shape barre chord (root on the 2nd fret of the low E string).
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E Shape Sixth Chord Barred
E6 Open E6 Barred (the audio example is an A6 chord with it’s root on the 5th fret) Fret/Chord Chart Depending on the fret your 1st finger barres determines what chord you are playing. For example, in an open E6 chord the open E string is the root. The E6 chord barre on the 1st…
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A Shape Barre Chord Exercises
In these exercises, you are to figure out the barre chord that needs to be played, and apply them to strumming basic quarter notes. For the first few pages of exercises I’ve include red lettering that
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Sixth Chord Shapes
A sixth chord is any triad with an added sixth above the root. For example, a major sixth chord built on C (denoted by C6, or CM6) consists of the notes C, E, G, and the added major sixth. Here are the 5 shapes for the sixth chord found in the open position. Other sixth…