Chords for Eric Johnson Teaches Chord Technique

Another thing that I like to do is not necessarily use the root of the chord on the bottom of the string.
In other words, if I had an A chord, _ I might put the third on the bottom.
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Or I might [E] put the fifth.
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[C#m] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ Or I could put any other manner of note that I wanted to add to the chord,
such as if I wanted to add a [B] sixth, it would [F#m] be F sharp. _ _
I could put that on the bottom.
_ Or top. _
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I could do a seventh. _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ [G] _ _
[C#] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Or any note that I want to add, or if it was just the one, three, five,
they can go on the bottom so that it gets me off the root to make the chord a little bit more [Bm] interesting.
And any extra [Em] note I want to add obviously can be moved around anywhere.
If you have a ninth, you could move it around to the octave [E] lower.
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And then you can always flatten certain notes or [A] _ _ sharpen them.
[C#] _ _ _ _
_ [Bm] _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ [G#] _ _
_ _ [G#] _ _ [C#m] _ _ _ _
_ [F#] _ _ [C#] _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ [B] _ _ _ [F] _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ [A#] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _
And all I do, once again, is just let all the chords [A#] move around with all the