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Converting basic 3 note
major chord shapes
Remember that all we need to make a major, minor, augmented,
diminished, sus2, or sus4 chord is 3 different notes. Below are
some very common 3 note C major chord shapes. Take all of these
and alter them into Cm, C+, Co, Csus2, and Csus4 chords.
Since you only have 3 notes to deal with, these are actually much
easier to convert. Once you learn the different chord shapes with
the root of C, play them in different parts of the neck with different
roots. I just used C major to make things easy.
3
note C major chord forms on the top 4 string.
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|-G-|---|---|---|
5
|---|---|-E-|---| 3
|---|---|-C-|---| 1
X|---|---|---|---|
X|---|---|---|---|
X|---|---|---|---|
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3rd fret
|-C-|---|---|---|
1
|-G-|---|---|---| 5
|---|-E-|---|---| 3
X|---|---|---|---|
X|---|---|---|---|
X|---|---|---|---|
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8th fret
|-E-|---|---|---|
3
|---|-C-|---|---| 1
|-G-|---|---|---| 5
X|---|---|---|---|
X|---|---|---|---|
X|---|---|---|---|
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12th fret
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X|---|---|---|---|
|---|---|-E-|---| 3
|---|---|-C-|---| 1
|---|---|-G-|---| 5
X|---|---|---|---|
X|---|---|---|---|
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5th
fret
X|---|---|---|---|
|-G-|---|---|---| 5
|---|-E-|---|---| 3
|---|---|-C-|---| 1
X|---|---|---|---|
X|---|---|---|---|
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8th fret
X|---|---|---|---|
|---|-C-|---|---| 1
|-G-|---|---|---| 5
|---|---|-E-|---| 3
X|---|---|---|---|
X|---|---|---|---|
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12th fret
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If there is one thing that you have learned in this
lesson, it is that things are not always nice and neat when applying
music theory to the guitar. Not only do you have to find an answer
that is theoretically correct, but one that you can physically
play. Be sure that you go back an reread this lesson, and all
3 lessons in this series for that matter. Don't just read it once
and say "I don't get it". Go back and work through each
part, read and reread. As you start to understand this material
more and more, you are going to find many doors will start to
open up that were closed before.
Page 11, Converting basic major barre chords (root on the 5th
string)
Page 1, Intro to altering basic chord forms
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