Post Four - Note the position

An example our I-IV-V minor chords are Am-Dm and Em. Note the position. When A is on the 5^th fret, 6th string the IV is across one string and the V is up to frets on the 4^th.

When the A is on the 5^th string we need to go down and across two frets to find the IV and up two frets to find the V which is now next to the starting note or root note.

This demonstrates where Am, Dm and Em are when playing bar chords. If you are playing in a major key the positions will be the same.

Additional Chords

These chords are made up by adding other notes of the scale that can be easily seen if we give each of the notes a number, as we did before.

Am as a scale would look like this:

1 2  3  4 5 6  7  8

A B C D E F G A

Am7 is an Am with a G added, the 7^th note

Amb5 would have an Eb