it is not really! it just sounds and looks like it! @POET
you have your simple notes Eddie Ate Dynamite Good Bye Eddie (E,A,D,G, B, E) which are the strings looking down the guitar. (top to bottom)
You have different notes on the fret board.
You have chords which form notes where you use a combination of fingers and these are called for example (C, A, G, E, D) etc. All of these have separate finger positions.
I am at the stage where I want tio play chords further up the fretboard; and to do this I form the C,A,G,E,D finger positions at different fret numbers down the guitar.
I just want clarification of what these numbers are.
These five chords and their positions mean I can pretty much access all the notes on the guitar and make more complex tunes.
Bro…I’m with you on guitar theory…sounds complicated but I bet it’s easy once you get to know it. I’ve been playing guitar for a while and I’m still afraid to learn to play correctly. I just learn different chords and put them together although I do understand music theory a little.
Once you know how to form a C an A a G an E and a D you can form all of these chords up the fretboard. All their shapes.
so for a C chord you start with a open C then move down to fret 3 and form an A shape , then to fret 7 and form a G shape etc. (CAGED)
then for the A chord, you go down the CAGED system forming from an open A then form a G shape first on fret 3. (AGEDC)
So you work down the word CAGED in both the chord name and how to form it.
Then for G chord (GEDCA)
Then for E chord (EDCAG)
Then for D chord you form a C first up the fret board starting first from an open D for example. (DCAGE)
It is quite simple really in theory.
I just need to know the fret numbers to form the shapes of C,A,G,E and D to for each chord.
The problem is each AI i have used has given me different numbers of the fretboard for me to form the CAGED system on.
Yea I bet … I’ve been wanting to put guitar in my music for a while now just haven’t got the motivation to get better yet. I think I’m gonna start my practice schedule back up. I bet real guitar would sound Soo much better than VST !!!
As a matter of fact… next song I’m gonna try a real guitar .
In essence I want a picture of 5 different fretboards showing the finger positions and fret numbers of each C chord. for example:The C chord in the A position
Then the A chords ( 5 of them, one showing the A chord in the G positon, for example.)
Then the G chords “”
Then the E chords “”
Then the D chords “”
The tablature/chord guides are all right and I understand what you mean by the CAGED system.
But what I get confused is what your question is.
Are you asking how do you play C in all shapes?
C in and A shape would be - X-3-5-5-5-3
Bar the third fret, press down the 4, 3, and 2 strings and ommit the 6th string from the playing.
A in a C shape would be - X-12-11-9-10-9
Harder to play but same idea, bar the ninth fret.
When the AI is saying that you need to fret 2 and 12 - thats AI being dumb. No one has hands that big XD
Also when you bar an A shape - there is variation how different players actually finger it. When I had younger fingers and want to play a C in an A shape I would bar the third frett with one finger, then press the other 3 strings with my ring finger. Any kind of variation on the shape works. Do what you find comforable.
I am just asking where my first finger goes and the note is played from.
So for the open C my first finger/index starts at fret 1, or for A chord in the G position it would start at fret 2, so ast to form the first shape of the G, or the C chord in the shape of the D would start at fret 10 with my index finger.
i might learn guitar theory… So there’s like a formula to know all the chords without learning each individual one?
!!! I’m gonna try this out bro. I’ve been using open 1pos chords and bar chords only…
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