A major barre at the 5th fret
A/V in the chord book
A/V is A major played as a barre at the 5th fret (the Roman numeral V after the slash is the fret, not a bass note), with the same notes as the open A shape: A, C# and E. Your index finger lies flat across all six strings at fret 5.
Strum it and Lark tells you if it is right. The chord detector is free and listens through your mic.
How to play it
- Index flat across fret 5, all six strings
- Middle on the G string, fret 6
- Ring on the A string, fret 7
- Pinky on the D string, fret 7
The number in each note head is the finger: 1 index, 2 middle, 3 ring, 4 pinky.
Strings to skip
Nothing to skip: strum all six strings.
- Shape
- Barre at fret 5index finger across all six strings at fret 5
- Fingers
- Fourindex, middle, ring and pinky
- Strings played
- All six
- Open strings
- Noneevery played string is fretted
- Lowest note
- A2the root, on the low E string
- Frets
- 5 7 7 6 5 5low E to high e, x means skip it
The notes in A
- Aroot
- C#major third
- Eperfect fifth
A major chord is three notes: the root, a major third and a perfect fifth. C# is the major third, four frets above the root. E is the perfect fifth, seven frets above the root.
String by string
- high e string: A4root
- B string: E4perfect fifth
- G string: C#4major third
- D string: A3root
- A string: E3perfect fifth
- low E string: A2root
Every note of A is in this shape, some of them twice.
The open shape
Strum it and Lark tells you if it is right.
Open the chord detector, play A and Lark names the chord it hears, with the notes in it. In the app, the chord book has all 111 chords, string by string.