Then you both have learned something from this . Im sorry you got hurt though <| sep |> There has been no way to test it until now and Inside isn ' t the best game for benchmarking , so it might be hard to test . <| sep |> That ' s called business by the way <| sep |> Omg ! I ' ve seen you in some gyms down at the University ! I remember because I too am a kingkiller book fan . <| sep |> You understand , I ' m only one step if that down the road from you but if I understand you correctly , I could mention for instance a G chord on guitar GBD GB . G ? So instead of going purely 1 , 3 , 5 as on the bottom 3 strings , on the top 3 strings you get G , B , skip the D because you just played B , and the top string is G . It ' s very common in Bluegrass music to play a G chord on guitar by playing D third fret on the second string with your third finger , which would otherwise play open as B . So you ' re changing the ' voicing ' original chord is 1 , 3 , 5 , 1 , 3 , 1 . Now playing that D note , you ' re getting 1 , 3 , 5 , 1 , 5 , 1 . See what I mean ? Or look at a D chord . On the guitar it plays D , A , D , F #. 1 , 5 , 1 , 3 It ' s perfectly acceptable to play that chord with the fourth fret of the fourth string , F #. So then it reads 3 , 5 , 1 , 3 . Another D chord I like is D , A , D , A little finger plays 5 th fret of 1 st string and that ' s 1 , 5 , 1 , 5 . The band Jethro Tull used this kind of sound in Days We Used to Know . I may have misunderstood your confusion , but if I were seeking to ' build ' a chord from scratch , I would find out the name notes , then mess around on the keyboard until I found some collection of them I could play physically , and then mess around some more until the order of them made a nice sound I wanted . You ' ll end up blocking strings sometimes , and playing only a few of the strings . The basic chords are designed in part to allow as much ' open ' unfingered sound as possible , for simplicity ' s sake . But if you are saying you want to play guitar chords that always go 1 , 3 , 5 or whatever the base form is , flat 3 rd for minor , etc . then it ' s going to be difficult . A guitar is not made that way . Or else human fingers are not made to braid ! grin