Where is the root note in a guitar chord?

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Where is the root note in a guitar chord?

Where is the root note in a guitar chord?

I play piano and i am learning guitar. I am confused on what makes a chord a chord. I know in piano the A chord in instance is an a chord because the root note is A. In Guitar what makes an A note an A note is it the root note?

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I know what you're trying to ask.

According to structure, when guitar is in standard tune, the basic A's root note is just the 5th string.

The basic C's root note is the 3rd fret of the 5th string.

E's is just the 6th string.

D's is just the 4th string.

F's is the 3rd fret of the 4th string. Or the 1st fret of the 6th string.

G's is the 3rd fret of the 6th string.

Lol at the answers people are giving

the lowest pitched non "dead" string in standard (non inverted) chords such as the basic C A G E D shape.

C shape: string 5.

A shape: string 5.

G shape: string 6.

E shape: string 6

D shape: string 4

if you use a bar to move these shapes up the fretboard, like when you play B, the root will still be in these strings.

due to the string numbering convention, higher string numbers have lower pitch (for the same fret)

If you see a chord with a slash (D/F#), that means it is inverted and the lowest is F# instead of D

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