ADAD Chords


Chords

A simple barre (first finger across all 4 courses at the same fret) will give the following set of 'modal' chords:


Fret

open

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

Chord

D

D#/Eb

E

F

F#

G

G#

A

A#/Bb

B

C

C#

D


Other useful chords in this tuning:


Example:
D major 5450 = fret positions from lowest to highest course.


D major 5450

D minor 5350

 

 

E minor 2522

 

F major 0333

 

 

G major 5550

 

 

A major 0242

A minor 0232

A5 0202

 

B minor 2020

 

C major 0232

 

 

A common technique, is to use the capo to change key without changing the fingering of the chords.

Playing a G chord progresion (G-C-D) with the fingering for those chords but capoed at the 2nd fret, gives an A chord progression (A-D-E).