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Chapter Five

Chords built from our Major Key scale

Chords on Guitar and Bass Guitar fretboards
Chords for the Guitar

Bar chord Form I / from Pattern 4 (has an E Major chord in open position)

Pattern 4: Copy the pattern to paper so we can mark the notes we will need.
First we mark all our Root notes
Next we blackout all notes except our Root, Major third and Perfect fifth.
Look for a way to play the three notes needed in our chord.
Here we find the three notes we need in a Form which we can hold with one hand on the neck.
1 is the index finger. 2 is the middle finger. 3 is the ring finger. 4 is the pinky finger.

Whichever note the Root is placed over is the name of the chord built. If the index finger bars the fifth fret, then the chord is an A Major. If the index finger bars the tenth fret, the chord is a D Major. If the index finger bars the third fret then the chord is a G Major.

Guitar Chords using Form I
Major Major 7th minor minor 7th Dominant 7th


Bar chord Form II / from Pattern 2 (has an A Major chord in open position)

Pattern 2: Copy the pattern to paper so we can mark the notes we will need.
First we mark all our Root notes
Next we blackout all notes except our Root, Major third and Perfect fifth.
Look for a way to play the three notes needed in our chord.
Here we find the three notes we need in a Form which we can hold with one hand on the neck.
1 is the index finger. 3 is the ring finger.

Whichever note the Root is placed over is the name of the chord built. If the index finger bars the fifth fret, then the chord is a D Major. If the index finger bars the tenth fret, the chord is a G Major. If the index finger bars the third fret then the chord is a C Major.

Guitar Chords using Form II
Major Major 7th minor minor 7th Dominant 7th suspended 2nd


Chord Form III / from Pattern 5 (has the D chord in open position)

Pattern 5: Copy the pattern to paper so we can mark the notes we will need.
First we mark all our Root notes
We blackout all notes except our Root, Major third and Perfect fifth and look for our chord.
Again we find the notes we need in a Form which we can hold with one hand on the neck.
1 is the index finger, 3 is the ring finger and 4 is the pinky.

Whichever note the Root is placed over is the name of the chord built. If the index finger bars the fifth fret, then the chord is a G Major. If the index finger bars the tenth fret, the chord is a C Major. If the index finger bars the third fret then the chord is an F Major.

Guitar Chords using Form III
Major minor Dominant 7th minor 7th suspended 4th


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