We had several hundred leaders this week so something mysterious is going on!
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Many thanks for this. A really useful document. It appears that I am further on than I thought as I knew a lot of this!
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Just come back to this one as part of barre chord practice for grade 3 module 22.
@Richard_close2u An observation more than anything but you have shown an E shape barre for ‘C’ at fret 8 but have found that an A shape at 5 is easier to change from Am and then to D, etc.
Point of correction… fret 3 A-shape for C major.
Yes Stuart - you have discovered something extremely powerful and valuable.
When it comes to E-shape and A-shape major and minor barre chords, you have a choice and they are always spaced five frets apart.
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Indeed! Don’t know why I said 5 (as that’s D major) and not 3!
I’m beginning to understand this.
That bit I didn’t know. Very helpful.
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Just had another look at this. So it’s 5 frets if going from the A string to the E, but 7 frets the other way round.
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Going the other way by 7 frets is an Octave apart but going the 5 frets from A to E is the same Octave. An open A chord with the root on the A string is the same as an A barre chord on the E string. An A barre chord with the root on the 12 fret A string is one octive higher than both.
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