Cool Eh? Next time you need an F chord try playing this 5th fret version for a cool effect. So when you move a C chord shape up the to fifth fret you get an F chord. That tells us that this is now an F chord. If we figure out what note this is, we figure out the name of our new chord. You can see that the ROOT NOTE POSITION is now sitting on the 5th fret of the C string. There are two ROOTS in this chord shape, but we can use either one. We have only to look at which note falls under the ROOT NOTE POSITION in the shape and that will tell us the name of our new chord. Let’s say we move the chord shape up to the 5th fret. This is very handy! Once we move the chord shape up the neck we only have to look at which note falls under the the ROOT NOTE POSITION of the chord and that will tell us the name of the new chord. So, we have figured out what the ROOT NOTE POSITION is for this chord shape. Here is another diagram of the open C chord with the root notes marked in RED. One open C and another on the 3rd fret of the A string. Where is the C note in the open C chord? There are two. But, what do we call the new chord once we’ve moved the shape? The key is to look at where the root note is in the chord shape. We end up with a shape like this.Īs we learned last newsletter, we can move this shape up the neck. We play the open G, C, and E strings and we fret the 3rd fret of the A string to give us another C note. When we play a C chord in open position (first four frets) we use three open strings and one fretted note. (NOTE: Please find a fretboard diagram to the right. And so on.įINDING THE POSITION OF THE ROOT NOTE IN A CHORD SHAPE:
The root note for a Ab7 chord is an Ab note. The root note for a Gm7 chord is a G note. It is the note that gives the chord its’ name. WHAT’S THE ROOT NOTE? The root note, very simply, is the most important note in the chord. Identifying the position of the ROOT NOTE in the chord shape is very important in naming chords up the neck.
I’ll do my best to answer this question in this newsletter. “What do we call the chords once we have moved them up the neck?” We took the C, F and G7 chord shapes and learned how to move them up the neck to play a chord progression in different keys. Last newsletter we talked about how to move chord shapes up the neck. UD #24 The Secret Life of Roots (Naming Moveable Chord Shapes)
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