A5

A1E5

Root and fifth, no third at all — neither major nor minor, which is the point.

on guitar on piano the scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

2400

easy

Fig. 3

240x

easy

Fig. 4

2450

easy

Fig. 5

245x

easy

Fig. 6

x9cc

easy

What is true of it

A5 is A and E — 1 and 5 counted from A.

The easiest of the 5 fingerings below is 2400: 2 fingers, held at the 2nd fret.

None of them uses an open string, so this chord moves up the neck unchanged — the same shape 1 fret higher is the chord a semitone above.

Where its notes are on the neck

Fig. 7 — first 12 frets

The brass dots are A, the root. Everything else is a chord tone with its degree printed in it.

With a different note underneath

first inversion

A5/E

x400

An inversion is the same chord with a different note lowest. The name changes to a slash name because the bass is what a listener hears as the foundation.

A in other shapes

Amajor Amminor Adimdiminished

C5 C♯5 D♭5 D5 D♯5 E♭5 E5 F5 all 374