What does the term "Box" chords mean? I have always heard about them, i confess, don't know what they are. :oops: I can't really find anything helpful in a google search...
I believe you are talking about box patterns.
I've heard the different positions of the major & minor pentatonic scales referred to as that.
I just finished the ones I do...It's the meat & potatoes of startin' to play riffs.
For example: A minor pentatonic, 5th fret box pattern
e|-----|-----|-----|-----|--1--|-----|-----|--b3-|-----|
B|-----|-----|-----|-----|--5--|-----|-----|--b7-|-----|
G|-----|-----|-----|-----|--b3-|-----|--4--|-----|-----|
D|-----|-----|-----|-----|--b7-|-----|--1--|-----|-----|
A|-----|-----|-----|-----|--4--|-----|--5--|-----|-----|
E|-----|-----|-----|-----|--1--|-----|-----|--b3-|-----|
See how the notes A (1), C (b3), D (4), E (5) and G (b7) form a sort of box on the fretboard? Other scales also form box-like patterns because of the way the guitar strings are laid out.
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Helgi Briem
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Here's a chart I made for the five positions in I-IV-V.....It's the Blues scale however, which is almost the same.
Be easy on me...I made this a while ago,
