Building Chords on the Guitar Fingerboard - Fifth String Root

home playmusicfree®

The shapes change slightly, but building chords from the fifth string root involves the same concept. The Dmaj7 chord is D (fifth string) with the 3rd. and 7th. added.

Flatting the 3rd. and 7th. intervals of a major chord produce a minor chord. We'll alter the Dmaj7 to become Dmin7.

Finally, just as with 6th string roots, we produce a "dominant 7th." chord by flatting only the 7th. interval of the major chord. Again, it is possible to construct these chords from any root.