Finally, lay the first finger across the fret thus barring all the strings (as indicated by a curved line). By doing this your first finger is doing the same job as the nut except one fret higher. This completes the raising of the basic E Major chord one fret. A new chord, F Major, is produced because the F note (or F chord) is always found one fret higher than E. As mentioned above, the root note (F) is found one the sixth string. The root note will be highlighed by a box.