[kjgam1]

Hi Kirk.
I've been looking through a book I have called Blues Fretboard Roadmaps. It kinda reminds of yours in that in one part it talks about moveable shapes: the "FDA Roadmap". Anyway I'm not meaning to make comparisons. My question is about the FDA Roadmap. The author of this book states that by using the 3 major chord formations: FDA, enables you to play any major chord all over the fretboard. This is the formula: F, skip 1, D, skip 1, A, skip 2. It can be done in any order, ie: FDA, ADF, DFA, etc. It's a continuous loop you can enter at any point but the formula remains the same. What I don't get is the statement that you can play 'any' major chord all over the fretboard. Do you think he means you can play FD&A anywhere on the freboard, or that by playing these shapes in different locations you can make ANY major chord? Also, do you have to begin your formula where FD&A are traditionally located as open chords or can you start them anywhere on the fretboard and use the formula? Sorry if this isn't clear and I realize you didn't write this book so it is probably unfair asking you about it but I'll give it a try anyway. If you make any sense of what I'm on about, your help would be greatly appreciated.

Hope you are enjoying Canada, but don't forget to come back to Oz.
All the best, Ken.

[6string]

If you make an F shape chord and put it in the 1st position (starting in the 1st fret) you get the F chord.
Your fingers are occupying the 1st,2nd & 3rd frets.
So if you skip 1 fret, which would be the 4th fret, and make a D shape
chord (which would be starting in the 5th fret) you have another F chord. So this 2nd F chord (which is in the shape of D) occupies the
5th and 6th frets, so if you skip 1 fret, being the 7th Fret, and make
and A shape chord starting in the 8th fret you now have another F chord, but only on the 4th,3rd and 2nd strings which is where you A shape part of the Chord is, if you barr the 6th fret you can play the
5th and 1st string with it also.Now if you skip 2 more frets you land in the 12th fret and you do an F shape chord you have another F chord.

If you make an F shape chord starting in the 3rd fret you actually have a G chord, skip 1,do a D shape, you have another G, skip 1 do an A and you have another G, etc etc. It works with any chord, it just depends on where you start.