Can you play open chords up the neck?
It's sounds beautiful, gentle, tight, cool and rough at the same time. When you move an open chord up the neck the name of the chord changes and the chord gets extended with 1 or 2 notes. ... While you can play barre chords at any fret on the fingerboard, open chords can only be played at certain frets.
What does playing down the fretboard mean?
Up and down the fretboard refers to moving voicings from the lower-numbered frets to the higher-numbered frets (where the higher pitches are). Across refers to taking the inversions from the higher-pitched strings to the lower-pitched strings. To invert a chord, move the bottom note up an octave.