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Here we'll talk about the F major chord. There's a few different ways you can play this chord.
I call it the little F, the big F, and essentially the, I don't know, the full F I guess you
could call it. Those are not technical definitions. But let's go to the F scale first. Starting
on F, one, two, three, four, five. That gives us F as one, A as three, C as five. So any
combination of Fs, As, and Cs, as long as F is the lowest sounding note, will give us
an F major chord. Now, the little F I call this one here. You'd have an F in the base,
which makes it an F chord, A, C, and F. So you've got F, A, C, F. You've got F, A, C,
which makes it an F major chord, F in the base--there's an F chord. Now you could also
do it down here. You could say F, C, F, A, with an F in the base, we've used all three
notes. So just those four strings. Now you could also bar the first finger all the way
across to hit these two strings up here on the first fret as well. So that would give
you F, C, F, A, C, F. All three of those are acceptable as an F major chord.