Chord Versions(Transitions) whatever!
I am an old ....very old.....disgustingly old player that was good 30 years ago but have not played due to health problems (And I sold my Fender to pay the darn rent)...now I have re-purchased my beloved Fender jag (American of course) and want to join the orchestra at my church. I am back to playing the oldies but ya can only play c, a min , f and g so much and ya want to progress. The music I am being handed has a ton of chord changes to the piece. I never learned all the possible places to play chords so I'm not bouncing all over the board trying to hit chords for one or two beats each. Is there any charts avaiable showing all the possible combinations of each chord from fret one and up? Or better yet is there a logical way to learn how to make the chords at any fret??? Like the piece I am currently learning (Great is Thy faithfulness)...it's in 3/4 and the chords change almost on every note [U]an example is: ...D,D+,Gm7,G6,G6,A7,G,A7,G,D,G,G2,G,D,A7,D,E,B7,E7,A..... The words are: Great is thy faith-ful-ness,O God my Fa-ther.There is no shad-ow of turn-ing with thee........[/U].As you see a chord a note and it gets worse......I don't want to play everything in the first three frets like an acoustic....I'd like to start with the Barred D at the 7th Fret. Most Christian Praise Music is like this...... Anyway to get back to my question....I would like to find a chart showing all forms of each chord so I can learn to play a piece any where on the fret board....if for no other reason than to easily modulate....Like I said.....I'm old old old...still playing Teen Angel !!
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Not sure if this is what you're after, but it might be a step in the right direction:
http://guitar.about.com/library/weekly/aa010901d.htm
Introduces you to barre chords and how you can use them. Once you know how a barre chord is formed, it's simply a matter of moving them around to a root note.
For example, the A Major chord could be played at the 5th fret on the bass E string (6th string), the C Major would be played at the 8th fret, D at the 10th, Bb at the 6th fret, etc.
Equally, the D Major could be played at the 5th fret of the A string (5th string), E Major would be played at the 7th, etc. etc.
The same princible applies to minor, diminished, domiant and any other chord you might want to play.
Hope that's what you were after - just ask if you've any further questions, everyone'll be glad to help.
Regards,
Chris.
http://guitar.about.com/library/weekly/aa010901d.htm
Introduces you to barre chords and how you can use them. Once you know how a barre chord is formed, it's simply a matter of moving them around to a root note.
For example, the A Major chord could be played at the 5th fret on the bass E string (6th string), the C Major would be played at the 8th fret, D at the 10th, Bb at the 6th fret, etc.
Equally, the D Major could be played at the 5th fret of the A string (5th string), E Major would be played at the 7th, etc. etc.
The same princible applies to minor, diminished, domiant and any other chord you might want to play.
Hope that's what you were after - just ask if you've any further questions, everyone'll be glad to help.
Regards,
Chris.
Don't worry too much about me, ignore me long enough and I'll go away.
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Originally Posted by: WilldridgeNot sure if this is what you're after, but it might be a step in the right direction:
http://guitar.about.com/library/weekly/aa010901d.htm
Regards,
Chris.
That is right.
Those two shapes would allow you to play the Major and minor chords in any key.
They are also known as Movable Chords.
And you can find moveable chords that you can use to play the other type of chords: Maj7, Maj9, Maj13, minor7, minor9, minor11, minor13, etc.
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