notes on guitar neck

dominatrix1 · 20 Jun 2008 at 00:23

A question im wondering on the guitar wehn playing barre chord and the route is on the 5th string does that mean that is all minor cchords

stude1983 · 20 Jun 2008 at 00:37

errrm no

Andelusion · 20 Jun 2008 at 01:08

No I'm not sure where you've got that idea from.

I suggest you look into something called the CAGED system, tonnes of explanations of this on the internet, get googling

This will show you how to play any Major or Minor chord in 5 places on the neck just by using the 5 open (C,A,G,E,D) Major and Minor shapes.

Naffa · 20 Jun 2008 at 06:53

Andelusion said:
I suggest you look into something called the CAGED system, tonnes of explanations of this on the internet, get googling This will show you how to play any Major or Minor chord in 5 places on the neck just by using the 5 open (C,A,G,E,D) Major and Minor shapes.

I can't recommend this highly enough. It's excellent in getting your knowledge of the guitar neck and the notes on it, up to a good standard. Being able to play chords with the root being on any of the last three strings is really important and this is a great, easy way to accomplish it.

THMRK · 20 Jun 2008 at 09:19

I always remember major and minors like this. A major is made up of notes 1 3 and 5 in the scale, a minor is made up of 1 flat3 and 5 in the scale. With one being the root note, it sort of becomes movable so when you start playing the major or minor scales you start to see the relationships between the chords.

That probably makes no sense to anyone.

GarethDW · 20 Jun 2008 at 19:10

Woody__ said:
I always remember major and minors like this. A major is made up of notes 1 3 and 5 in the scale, a minor is made up of 1 flat3 and 5 in the scale. With one being the root note, it sort of becomes movable so when you start playing the major or minor scales you start to see the relationships between the chords.

That probably makes no sense to anyone.

This is kinda how I do it too.

I started off by just learning chord shapes parrot-fashion when I taught myself to play, but since I've started having lessons I now understand why, for example, a C# minor 7th is called that, and how it's constructed.

Naffa · 20 Jun 2008 at 19:30

If you can learn the formulas for the chords, ie the degrees that make them up, then that's definitely the way to do it. The only thing is, that maybe somewhat theory intensive for a beginner.

Once you've learnt the major and minor chords in all five CAGED positions, you could learn maj7, min7, dom7 and m7b5 chords in all five CAGED positions. Learn where the degrees are within the shape and if you want to get really serious, you can learn all of the arpeggios for each different chord, in each different CAGED position.