Chords and Inverted Chords on a Guitar Fret Group. Exercise

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9. Building chords and inverted chords on a fret group

Grouping the frets allows chord fingering patterns be logically very simple. They are exactly the same for every group in any particular key, and every group has them built on top. All chords corresponding to these "patterns on groups" belong to the same key, only you have to watch what chord is minor, what is major, and what is diminished: it is not the same from group to group. Firstly, few words about the fourths.

Fourths ( perfect fourth and augmented forth or tritone between F and B) are the intervals between all strings within the same fret group except strings 2 and 3. See examples on the left. Fourths allow building inverted chords. Also on the left you can see 3 types of the Am chord. The root of the chords on the diagrams is marked 1.

 

Below is the diagram of all chord patterns which are built on groups of frets, not on individual frets. As you can see they are very simple. These patterns are the same for every group. This example shows triads build on the 2 and 3 strings. There are 6 types of these triads covering 4 chords and therefore shown in 6 small tables. Rows of these tables represent strings, left column - the previous group of frets (in this case, frets 3-4), central column - the central group (fret 5), and right column - the next group (frets 6-7).

 
1
2
3
4
5
6
3-4  5  6-7
     
     
     1  
     
     
     
3-4  5  6-7
     1  
     
     
     
     
     
3-4  5  6-7
     
     
     1  
     
     
     
3-4  5  6-7
     
     
     
       1
     
     
3-4  5  6-7
     
       1
     
     
     
     
3-4  5  6-7
     
     1  
     
     
     
     

The same diagram can be applied to any group. For example, we can pick up the group 6-7 as central, and 5 on the left and 8-9 on the right. Patterns stay the same. Only watch what chord is major, what minor: it is different in each case. All this is a great help in memorization of chords. Of course, if you master the way chords are build in standard musical notation and memorize all the notes of the fingerboard, you might have no need in working with these geometrical patterns. However, the logic behind this is interesting.

Here is the exercise to check how you can stride along the fingerboard in C major key playing chords.



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Available PAD in the key C - Am: Help | Home | Explanation | Musical Structure of Guitar | Success without memorizing | Forums, Groups
Notes: C, D, E, F, G, A, B
Triads of C major scale: C, Dm, Em, F, G, Am, Bdim, tetrads: Bm7b5, G7
Triads of A minor scale: E, other: A
C blues scale C7, F7, G7
Chords over C major scale: C, G, F, Em, Am, Dm, Bdim
Chords over A minor scale: Am, Dm, E, G, C, F, Bdim
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