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How to Work Out Chord Formulas on Guitar

Understand how Chord Formulas work and learn how to find chords on the fret board using the CAGED system. This is the sixth video in the 'Powering Your Way Up the Pyramid' mini series which is focuses on utilising music theory to be a better guitar player. Catch up with the previous lessons here!    • Why Guitar Players Need to Learn Music Theory   -- Find hundreds more lessons, videos and tutorials at the Secret Guitar Teacher site! Sign up now for a free 30 day trial https://www.secretguitarteacher.com/ -- Abridged Script When you first start learning guitar, you tend to learn chords as shapes. You learn that this is a G chord, this is a D chord, this is an Am …and so on A little further along, you become aware that there are alternative ways of playing the same chords … For example, you learn barre chords so you can now play G like this, D like this or Am like this… But what nobody tells you in these early days, is that there are something like forty thousand different ways of playing chords on the guitar! Clearly, learning chords by memorizing shapes alone, is not going to get you far along the road to mastering this vital element of guitar playing. The system of chord formulas is simply a method of defining all chord types relative to the major scale. Let’s show you an example. At the top of the screen are the notes of the C major scale – CDEFGABC. Next we have written out the formula for Major chords – this is expressed as numbers – in this case 1 3 5. To apply the formula we simply select the corresponding notes from the scale. So, in this case that means the 1st , 3rd and 5th notes – C, E and G. If we pile these up on top of each other, as shown at the start of the bottom line, we have the chord of C major. Notice, it is customary to repeat the key note, C in this case, in the upper octave as well. Finally, you can see how, by playing the notes from the chord formula, one at a time, I produce a C Major arpeggio. Now, when you look closely at the familiar shape we first learn for a C chord and work out the actual notes we are playing. C E G C we can see how these are the 1st 3rd and 5th notes from the C Major scale. If we play the middle four strings straight up and down again, we can hear the arpeggio of the chord of C major. But the C chord is a bit of a special case. Most chord shapes on the guitar don’t produce the notes arranged neatly in the order given by the formula. When we play D major for example, we hear the notes D A D and F#. Well these are still the 1st 3rd and 5th notes, in this case of the D major scale, but physically it would be impossible to arrange them in the correct order as an open chord so we do the next best thing and instead of arranging them 1 3 5 8, we arrange them 1 5 8 3 – D A D F# The rules of harmony generally work irrespective of pitch, so this rearrangement of the notes of the chord works perfectly OK. And notice that playing the arpeggio in the correct order is no problem as we can play the D note on the open string, the F# on the same string at the 4th fret, then the A on the third string and top D on the 2nd string … But how can we use the formula to find some of the other of those 40-odd thousand chords? Well, taking C major as a nice simple example again, once we have used the formula to select the notes - in this case C E and G the next step is to locate all the occurences of those notes on the fret board. If we look carefully at the patterns formed by these notes we should be able to spot the five shapes that form the basis of the CAGED system of fret board orientation. Notice that each of these are combinations of the notes C E and G so, played together they produce various voicings of the C major chord. The C shaped C, the A shaped C, the G shaped C, the E shaped C and the D shaped C. – called CAGED because the shapes are in the order CAGED spelling the word CAGED. But within these shapes, there are more than one way to combine the notes C,E and G. Giving us several more ways of playing a C major chord. We can also bring open strings into play. The E note on the open top string can be combined with C and G notes fretted on other strings or the open G could be combined with C and E notes fretted on adjacent strings… I hope you can begin to see that by understanding chord formulas you open up scope for creativity many times greater than you have by trying to memorize shapes. On the Secret Guitar Teacher’s Guitar Music Theory course we take you step by step through the subject of chord formulas from the simple chords like C major, all the way up to the more complex chords used in jazz music. It’s a fascinating journey and one that puts you in charge of your playing and widens the horizons of what you are able to do with your guitar playing. In the next video in this series we’ll take a brief look at the subject of harmonizing scales and help you better understand how different chords belong together in different keys. See you then!