Fretboard Logic = Anygood?

Jimbo

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I have just ordered Fretboard Logic from an online store, has anyone any experience of this book?

Now I have it in a rather bad scanned pdf and its making some sense, but I think so far so good and have bought it.

What I cant get my head around is why would you want to play a for example.. A shape chord barre on the 3rd fret 1st finger and the normal a shape after that to produce a C major chord??

I suppose its easier than a barre C at the 8th fret? I just cant get my head around using an A shape to produce a C.... lol. :p But then again that looks like an E shape.. oh my head.


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Oops I think I made a fool of myself, I need to study the fretboard more?

Its to do with the root right?

Im confused now... should I learn caged or stick to normal chords?
 
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Ok so you can play your open major shapes: C,A,G,E,D they spell Caged, that's how you remember them.

When you are playing them in the open position, imagine that instead of strings being 'open' they're being fretted on an imaginary fret below fret 1.

If you were to move that shape up a fret, but not move anything else, then you'd only be moving some notes of the chord, by leaving the strings open you're playing a different type of chord (infinite possibilites here so best not to get into detail).

Basically if you move any shape UP on the same set of strings from the open position, you have to compensate for those open strings by fretting on the appropriate strings where the open strings were previously, this is why you have to change your fingering because for a lot of shapes you're already using your first finger for the lowest fret positions in the chord.

It's MUCH easier to see on paper when you think in shapes.

Edit: Fear my paint skills

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That is an 'A' shape, as it's in the open position, it's an A Chord.

Look at that open string, imagine that instead of letting the string ring you have to put your finger below the NUT, put your first finger there, now, to make the stretch comfortable you'd have to use your 3rd finger for the 2nd fret (a barre) (technically your 1st would be on fret -1!, so there'd be 3 frets between your third finger and first finger), you should be seeing this C Major chord you see when you move the whole shape up to the 3rd fret.

Once you get the hang of this, it's important to learn where the ROOT NOTES are for each open chord voicing, once you know this, it's easy to move them to any particular chord you want, and link the chord shapes up.
 
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Yes so if I barred the first fret and moved that A shape to the 3rd fret Id get a A# and then a B and so on moving down the fret.

Thank you for your diagram, this is all fascinating and exciting stuff to me. I cant stop playing guitar now, and I never thought I would be able to, lol.
 
Thanks for that mate a good watch.

I can do my barre chords although not to a high standard yet and im still relaying a bit much on major and power chords. I wasnt putting my barre finger actually on the fret though as you demonstrated, more in the middle. might be easier your way.

A million thanks to you all.
 
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