the guitar difficult—even more difficult than learning the formation of plural nouns in German, according to Gary Marcus. Nonetheless, most beginners use standard tuning. Another feature of standard tuning is that the ordering of notes often differs from root position. Notes are often inverted or otherwise permuted, particularly with seventh chords in standard tuning, as discussed below. Power chords: fingerings As previously discussed, each power chord has only one interval, a perfect fifth between the root note and the fifth. In standard tuning, the following fingerings are conventional: Triads Triads are usually played with doubled notes, as the following examples illustrate. Major Commonly used major chords are convenient to play in standard tuning, in which fundamental chords are available in open position, that is, the first three frets and additional open strings. For the C major chord (C,E,G), the conventional left-hand fingering doubles the C and E notes in the next octave; this fingering uses two open notes, E and G: E on the first string C on the second string G on the third string E on the fourth string C on the fifth string Sixth string is not played. Major Chords (Guide for Guitar Chord Charts) A: 002220 B: x24442 C: 032010 D: xx0232 E: 022100 F: 133211 F#: 244322 (movable – remember that no sharps or flats are between BC and EF) Normal G: 320003 Nashville style G: 3×0033 For the other commonly used chords, the conventional fingerings also double notes and feature open-string notes: Besides doubling the fifth note, the conventional E-major chord features a tripled bass note. The B major and F major chords are commonly played as barre chords, with the first finger depressing five–six strings. B major chord has the same shape as the A major chord but it is located two frets further up the fretboard. The F major chord is the same shape as E major but it is located one fret further up the fretboard. Minor Minor chords (commonly notated as C-, Cm, Cmi or Cmin) are the same as major chords except that they have a minor third instead of a major third. This is a difference of one semitone. To create F minor from the F major chord (in E major shape), the second finger should be lifted so that the third string plays onto the barre. Compare the F major to F minor: The other shapes can