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<\/p>\nBeginners usually start learning chords with open strings, i.e. at the first couple of frets, and covering all strings. Most important of these are the E and A chord forms, as they can be played as barr\u00e9 chords and thus moved up the neck to get other chords. The first barr\u00e9 chord taught is usually the F chord, which uses the E form moved up one fret.<\/p>\n
I then stumbled upon quite a number of songs that make use of mostly the D, G, and B strings, e.g. Brown Sugar by the Rolling Stones. At the fifth fret, this provides three possibilities for major chords:<\/p>\n
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I’ve circled the root note of each – the first two are inversions, the third is a standard A chord, derived from the E form but omitting both E strings and the A string. Especially the combiation of the first and second chord form is often found, as it allows for easy switching between the first and fourth, e.g. C and F, as pictured above. The fourth (sub dominant) has a special meaning in harmonics. Brown Sugar<\/em> makes extensive use of this.<\/p>\n These three forms also mean that there are three positions on the neck where you can play a given chord, e.g. the A chord (root note circled):<\/p>\n This can of course be applied to all other chords, too. You can use this to minimize your movement along the neck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Beginners usually start learning chords with open strings, i.e. at the first couple of frets, and covering all strings. Most important of these are the E and A chord forms, as they can be played as barr\u00e9 chords and thus moved up the neck to get other chords. The first barr\u00e9 chord taught is usually […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[102],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-2555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-guitar","czr-hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/achord.png\")
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