Can somebody explain to me what the reasoning or the “philosophy” behind it is? I know ( moreso accepted because I haven’t really applied it ) how it looks on the guitar with the shapes and such but It’s not connecting ( coming to me in a holistic way if that makes sense )
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I hate that people call it a “system”. It’s not a system, it’s a basic observation.
C, A, G, E, and D are the five movable chord shapes, meaning they can be played as barre chords anywhere on the neck. If we want to play an F chord, we could play it as an E-shape chord on the 1st fret, a D-shape chord on the 3rd, a C-shape on the 5th, an A-shape on the 8th, a G-shape on the 10th, and then repeat again with E-shape on the 13th (and so on).
That’s it. It’s not a philosophy, it’s not a method, it’s not a “system”, it’s just an observation about chord shapes. It doesn’t help you play the instrument, and it doesn’t even really help you find ways to play a chord, since you still have to know your way around the fretboard.
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