9. The 7 Key Chords - BAGED Strings

• Over the past five chapters, I have taught you how to play chords on the E, A, D, G, and B strings.
• I introduced the chords starting from the heaviest to the lightest strings to make them easier to remember.
• However, on a guitar, chords are actually arranged along the fretboard in a different order.
• They are rooted successively on the B, A, G, E, and D strings.
  • This spells the word "BAGED".
• The graph below illustrates this arrangement, showing where you root the C major chord on the B, A, G, E, and D strings.

• This is what the C major chord looks like at these different positions.

• If you're writing a song and find that playing the C major chord rooted on the B string is too low in pitch or inconvenient on the fretboard, you can root the C major chord on another BAGED string.
• This allows you to find a pitch and position that better suits your needs.
• This works for all chords.

B String Chords