Originally Posted by: caponi14yes, sorry.

It's the B string that confuses me.

No need for an apology. A simple, honest mistake. :)

Did you have a look at the tutorials? In particular my triads and inversions tutorial clearly shows in notation and fretboard diagrams all the patterns and precisely how they change crossing the G-B string gap.

http://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=148

For example, in lesson 2 of that tutorial, there is a diagram that shows how the major chord triads and their inversions look the same everywhere, except with that peculiar shift of one fret up when they cross the G-B strings:

http://www.guitartricks.com/lesson.php?input=9213

Consider, if all the strings were tuned uniformly at an interval of a 4th (i.e.: at the 5th fret), then all the root position chords shapes would look exactly the same! And likewise, all the first inversion shapes would look the same, etc. It's only because there is a confusing change crossing the G-B string gap that we have different shapes!

Make sense?