In this video
A recap of the Root 6 barre chord shapes for major and minor chords. These are referred to as E major shape or E minor shape barre chords, as they are these shapes but moved higher up the neck.
Here is a recap of the Root 6 barre chord shapes for major and minor barre chords. These are commonly referred to as E major shape or E minor shape barre chords, as they are these shapes but moved higher up the neck.
E major shape barre chord
E minor shape barre chord
String 6 root notes
This diagram shows all the note names on string 6 of the guitar neck. When playing either of the shapes above,
The blue colour indicates the sharp notes, shown by the # symbol e.g. F sharp is written F#.
Every sharp note can also be called a flat too e.g. F# is the same as Gb (G flat) because in music these are enharmonic equivalents (same note that can have different names!)
Whether a note is called a sharp or a flat depends entirely on the key it is in, which we will look at in the jamming section of this course.