Fragmented Chords Using the D Chord A Chord and the F Chord Formations

This guitar lesson is a neat way to change the sound of a song you are playing. Sometimes when you have two electric guitar players or acoustic guitar players as well and these players are both playing the same type of chords this can be a little over powering and redundant.

These fragmented chords can be played all over the neck and will become whatever chord you need them to be all you need to do is base that chord on the correct root note. Bellow the circled notes are the root notes. So base your chords you are looking for around that root note and you have the fragmented match of your bar or open chord that is being played.

There is yet another cool aspect of these guitar chords. These guitar chord fragments also work in patterns. So you can easily change the chord formation you are using or use the same chord in an ascending or descending progression. As shown in bellows exampled the orders and distance between these chords remain the same all over the neck and repeats. This is the pattern.

1)      Starting the D chord formation.

2)      The A chord formations is then 3 frets up from the D chord

3)      The F chord formation is then up 2 frets from the A chord formation

4)      The D chord formations are 1 fret up from the F chord formation.

The patter n then starts all over. As shown in the lower example.

This is a great and fairly simple trick to use. You can use this for guitar leads using the arpeggios or to give a wider sound to the songs you’re playing. However you use it I recommend you practice this and get very good with it so you can use this on the fly then next time you are jamming.