Originally Posted by: BrokenJera...if you played the 1st second inverson on a 7 string guitar at the 2nd fret it would be an open B then going through all of them at the 2nd fret it would be E A D.

I think we may have a miscommunication issue. :)

You can slide any given shape up and down the same strings on which they originated while maintaining their basic pattern.

You can NOT always move any given shape across to different strings even if maintaining their basic pattern.

The reason this happens is because of the G to B string being tuned at a major 3rd (4 frets apart) instead of the standard 4th (5 frets apart). this causes some "pattern distortion" from the norm. Same if you have a "drop D" tuning or some tuning other than standard.

So you can move like this:

E|----------|
B|-2--4--5--|
G|-2--4--5--|
D|-2--4--5--|
A|----------|
E|----------|
A B C

But not like this:

E|----------|
B|-2--------|
G|-2--2-----|
D|-2--2--2--|
A|----2--2--|
E|-------2--|


Make sense?