Guitar FAQ

Asked and Answered

Why is the guitar tuned EADGBE and not something regular?

It is almost regular: fourths all the way up, except a major third between G and B. That one compromise keeps the common chord grips inside four frets while the barre still reaches a full six-string voicing. The cost is the famous kink — any shape crossing the G–B pair shifts up one fret. Our fretboard explorer lets you see it directly.

Do I really have to learn barre chords?

Yes — and they are a better deal than they look. A barre form is an open shape made movable: learn one grip and its root string, and you own that chord quality in all twelve keys. Every chord page here shows the open grip (where one exists) and the movable forms together, sorted up the neck, so the connection stays visible.

What are those position boxes on the scale pages?

The fretboard is too long to learn all at once, so guitarists cut each scale into overlapping four-to-five-fret windows — boxes. Learn one box deeply, then use the overlap to cross into the next. Our scale maps flag the root in every box because navigation starts from knowing where home is.

Is a 12-string harder to play?

Physically a little (more tension, wider nut), musically no: 12-string shapes are exactly the 6-string shapes — the strings run in doubled courses you fret as one. You already know how to play it; it just answers with more voices.

What’s different about the tenor, terz, and resonator?

The tenor guitar has four strings tuned in fifths (CGDA) — a genuinely different system, closer to a mandola than to EADGBE. The terz is a small guitar whose standard shapes sound a minor third higher, and the resonator commonly lives in open G (GBDGBD), where the open strings already make a chord. Each gets pages drawn for its actual neck.

Is any of this paid?

No. Every chart, drill, and tool on Guitar Warrior is free, with no ads and no account.