Hey Friend,

After yesterday's discussion about the five basic chord shapes, I felt a demonstration was in order. It's one thing to read about them, another to see and hear. Here are the exercise files.

Each C major chord has a number in parentheses. This indicates which string the root note "C" is for each chord. 

If there is a slash "/" in the chord name, this means the root note, or first one you would strum in the chord, is one of the other chord notes.

I'll talk more about inversions later, but for now, just know that an inversion is just a reordering of the chord notes. Instead of each chord having the notes in the 1 3 5 order, it could be 3 5 1 or 5 1 3. 

I've also included in the exercise files the example comparing C major in its basic triad form to a full chord with strings doubled up. I talked about this a couple days ago.

It's not even 7:15 in the morning and the work cell is going off. Don't they know "Homey don't play dat?" 

Peace~

Dave