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The content of this ebook is a selection of beginner and
intermediate guitar player chords provided to you by
http://www.fachords.com/ website. On the site you can also find
an interactive online app that generates chord shapes and
sounds. Hope you'll enjoy the ebook!
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We begin with the most common chord shapes. In this section you
can find major chords (root, major third and perfect fifth), minor
chords (root, minor third and perfect fifth) and dominant seventh
(root, major third, perfect fifth and minor seventh). These shapes
are in first position and use open strings.
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C major
D major
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E major
F major
G major
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A major
B major
C minor
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D minor
E minor
F minor
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G minor
A minor
B minor
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A dominant seventh chord is composed by the root, the major
third, perfect fifth and minor seventh. Blues progressions use
dominant chords a lot, for example try this basic blues
progression: C7 | C7 | F7 | G7
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Here are more interesting chords.
but learning this shape will help you expand your musical
vocabulary. These chord shapes are in first position and use open
strings.
Cmaj7
C7sus4
They are a bit more challenging,
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Now it's time to leave the first position of the neck and start to
explore the whole fretboard. All the following shapes don't use any
open strings, so you can move the shape along the freatboard in
order to get chords with different
For your convenience, here's the notes map of the fretboard.
With movable chord shapes, you've just need to memorize only
one shape for all the different 12 possible root notes. For example,
take a look at the picture below.
highlighted the C major triad (C, E, G). To obtain the F major triad
(F, A, C), is enough to translate the shape five fret above, without
changing the geometry. This is a feature of trasposing instruments
like the guitar. Apply the same logic to all the following movable
chord shapes.
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Major Triads
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A major triad is composed by the root (R in the diagram), the major
third (3) and the perfect fifth (5). Here are all the possible major
triad configurations on the fretboard. If
shapes (and the other triad forms) you will become able to take a
given chord in every position and every string of the fretboard.
have just to identify the root note and place fingers
fretboard in the propers shap
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Minor Triads
A minor triad is composed by the root (R in the diagram), the minor
third (b3) and the perfect fifth (5).
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Augmented Triads
An augmented triad is composed by the root (R in the diagram),
the major third (b3) and the augmented fifth (#5).
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Diminished Triads
A diminished triad is composed by the root (R in the diagram), the
minor third (b3) and the diminished fifth (b5). The diminished fifth
is also called tritone or the devil's interval (diabolus in musica),
because its "evil" sound. If you are into heavy metal you know what
I mean.
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In the following diagrams, the root note is marked with a circle. For
example, the chord shape of a dominant seventh chord with the
root of the A string, is the following:
If you want to take a C7 chord, you have to take as root note the C.
As previously said, the root note in the diagram is marked with a
circle. So, in order to take a C7, the root note has to be a C, that on
the A string is placed on the 3rd fret.
With the same logic, if you want to take a D7, you have to start
with the root note on the fifth fret of the A string (D).
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