@Brett Blatchley:

Hey, don’t worry about it, and thanks for stopping by.

To clarify, the blue notes are root notes, and black notes are regular notes. The ‘x’ means not to play that string. So looking at the first shape for ‘major’ lets say we wanted to play an E Major chord. First notice that for this shape the root (blue) is on the 4th string from the highest (which is tuned to D). Now knowing that simply find which fret would be an E note in our DADGAD tuning–which turns out to be the second fret (when I get some time I’ll post a diagram of notes on the fretboard in DADGAD tuning). Anyway, knowing that… all you have to do is form this shape starting with the root note on the second fret of the D string, so the resulting chord would be: xx2122 — E Major.

It’s the same thing with the scales as well. Simply find the note on the low E string (which is now a D) that is the root of scale you want to play. So if you wanted to play A minor, you’d start now on the 7th fret. Simply play that ‘shape’, but starting on that fret and you’ve got that scale, which on the lowest string at least would look like this:

D-----------------------
A-----------------------
G-----------------------
D-----------------------
A-----------------------
D-7-9-10-12-14-15-17-19-

I hope this helps, if not please let me know if you have any additional questions.