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the bar reprents the nut. There are 5 opened shaped major chords. Once you move out of open territory you have to remember that if moved up three frets the Em pent shape (now a Gm pent shape due to the location change) will have what use to be open strings now covered on the fret where you put your index to bar for an Em shaped Gm scale. I am not saying you should bar this but keep track of it as a point or reference. My index likes to have a good home base. I will bar for raking or tritone effect but I don’t leave it barred.