Sunday, May 29, 2011

Intoduction to Chords - Guitar Guide

The first things that we will look at in here are chords. Guitarists use many different chords to make progressions or riffs that can then be used to create songs. If you are not familiar with some of these terms, it’s ok. We will cover everything that I am talking about in good time.
A chord is defined as a combination of three or more notes played together. To examine this, I want to take a look at chord diagrams. Chord diagrams are used to illustrate how a chord is played. They are very easy to use because they look very much like the neck of the guitar. In fact, our chord diagram is a guitar neck.

So, now that you know what a chord diagram looks like and how it matches with
the neck of your guitar, it’s time to come back to what I said earlier about a chord being a combination of three or more notes played together. Finger placing symbols are added to the chord diagram so we know which notes to play. To start with, let’s look at your fingers.

And now, let’s look at a full chord diagram. We will use the example of the A major chord:
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