Major Chords




A chord is a combination of three or more more notes played together. Every chord falls under two categories; Major and Minor. Today we will look at Major chords.

There are five basic major chord patterns. They are; C,A,G,E, and D. (AKA the 'CAGED System') There are two more basic major chords that are not in this system. They are: F and B. These are both Bar-Chords.

Cmajor
______0____
| | | | | |
|_|_|_|_1_|
| | | | | |
|_|_2_|_|_|
| | | | | |
|_3_|_|_|_|

Amajor
__0________0
| | | | | |
|_|_|_|_|_|
| | | | | |
|_|_2_2_2_|
| | | | | |
|_|_|_|_|_|

Gmajor
____0_0_0___
| | | | | |
|_|_|_|_|_|
| | | | | |
|_1_|_|_|_|
| | | | | |
2_|_|_|_|_3

Emajor
0_____0_0_0_
| | | | | |
|_|_|_1_|_|
| | | | | |
|_2_3_|_|_|
| | | | | |
|_|_|_|_|_|

Dmajor
____0_______
| | | | | |
|_|_|_|_|_|
| | | | | |
|_|_|_1_|_2
| | | | | |
|_|_|_|_3_|

Fmajor
____________
| | | | | |
1_|_|_|_1_1
| | | | | |
|_|_|_2_|_|
| | | | | |
|_3_4_|_|_|

Bmajor
____________
| | | | | |
|_1_|_|_|_1<-second fret
| | | | | |
|_|_|_|_|_|
| | | | | |
|_|_2_2_2_|

Often times Major Chords are just referred to as their letter name. Cmajor would be C. Amajor would be A. Gmajor would be G. etc...

Next we will look at the basic Minor Chords.

-Zack-