Chords

CHORDS that can ONLY be made with a CAPO.

 

  These chord shapes can be transposed to ANY key by using a CAPO.  Try as you might, these fingerings CANNOT be fully transposed using your index finger as barre. 

  One-hundred-twenty-three chord tablatures are named and shown below.  In each tablature. the double horizontal line represents the guitar's nut.  When the capo is used, imagine the double-horizontal line to be the fret behind which the capo is placed. Then rename the chord according to the number of the fret. For instance an A chord shape moved with the capo to fret three (A > Bb > B > C) becomes a C chord. 

   Many of these chords have two or more names.  For instance, the A6 chord contains the same notes as the F#m7 (A, C#, E and F#).

   A slash, / , indicates that the note named after the slash is the lowest BASS note as sounded on the guitar, and not the tonic. 

   If an X appears above the double-horizontal line, it means that the #6, or bass-E, string is muted or not played.


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