Talk:List of major chord shapes for guitar

Three shapes

First of all, kudos to all who contributed to this article. Good job.

I would like to offer the following suggestion. The guitar chord shapes came about because of the way the guitar is tuned:

4th, 4th, 4th, 3rd, 4th

Some shapes “take advantage” of these relationships, ergo the open strings. But, in fact, there are only three shapes, not six:

• the E shape (the 1 is being played on string one),
• the C shape (the 3 is being played on string one),
• and the A shape (the 5 is being played on string one).

The other three shapes in this article can be explained like this:

• The F shape is really a variation of the E shape, the barre replacing the nut.
• The D shape is a variation of the C shape, closed strings three and one replacing the nut, and the variation taking advantage of the pitch of the open strings five and four.
• And the G shape is a variation of the A shape, albeit the 1 is being played on string one, the nut is replacing closed strings four, three, and two, and the shape is taking advantage of the pitch of strings six, five, and one.

Please at least think about this before flaming me.

AlvinMGO 15:49, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Image size

Hello Hyacinth, I really think the main chord diagrams look better big. Reducing the size makes them fuzzy. Also, they're the primary information, it doesn't make sense for them to be small and the partial forms to be big. I'm gonna put them back the way I had them. If this pisses you off of course we can discuss it. Yours Truly, U Go Boy 7 December

See Wikipedia:Image_use_policy#Displayed_image_size. Hyacinth 09:29, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

"Larger images should generally be a maximum of 550 pixels wide, so that they can comfortably be displayed on 800x600 monitors." Hyacinth 19:28, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

This article seems like a bit of an odd case to me, it's more image-oriented than usual. The diagrams are really the main point of it. Maybe they can be allowed to throw their weight around a bit more here than in an article where the images are basically an extra.

I'm not much of an expert on different screen resolutions, etc. Will these look that terrible on an 800 x 600 screen?

I looked through the discussion pages of Wikipedia:Image_use_policy to see if I could find out more about this issue, how the rule was arrived at, etc. Archive 5, and to some extent Archive 7 had relevant material, but nothing right on point. There seems to be a continual tug of war between having good looking images and having images that can be viewed on limited equipment.

Bear in mind that these images are long, but skinny, and being black-and-white, they're quite small memory wise. -- U Go Boy 05 Jan