Frets in Guitar Chords & Shapes

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MICHAEL PLUNKETT: Hi. This is Michael Plunkett on behalf of Expert Village. We were looking at how to read our basic chord chart now for our guitar chords, and we'd already taken a look at the strings. Now, we're going to go ahead and look at these horizontal ones. These represent the different frets or wires on the guitar. So, basically, normally when you're looking at it, this top line up here is where you represent what we called the nut of the guitar. That, looking at the guitar, is going to be this very top part. Sometimes it's white, it could be all different colors, but it's basically where the strings connect to the head of the guitar. And then in any case, after that, we go down one by one, and we'll just mark the frets. And you don't always see them marked, but they go down consecutively in order, one, two, three. Usually on the chord chart, you'll just see maybe three or four frets marked. Most chords take place within this space of about three frets. Sometimes, for instance, if there's a chord that doesn't start until the 5th fret, you might see a marking like this where somebody will put that same dash there, and they might just mark this as 5. Now, that's actually telling me that we're shifted down and that, this is going to be the 5th fret marking and we would read the chord from there however it would fit into the chord shape.

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