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Fig. 1 — nothing to hold

guitar chord

F5

F1C5

Root and fifth, no third at all — neither major nor minor, which is the point.

on ukuleleon pianothe scale

What is true of it

F5 is F and C — 1 and 5 counted from F.

No fingering of F5 fits a hand on the guitar: inside four frets, with the strings that sound next to each other and the root underneath, there is nothing to hold.

Where its notes are on the neck

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Fig. 2 — first 12 frets

The brass dots are F, the root. Everything else is a chord tone with its degree printed in it.

With a different note underneath

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first inversion

F5/C

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An inversion is the same chord with a different note lowest. The name changes to a slash name because the bass is what a listener hears as the foundation.

F in other shapes

FmajorFmminorFdimdiminished

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