Which Chords To Learn First On Guitar
Chords and scales are the most essential part of learning to play the guitar. There are really thousands of chords and not all of them are essential. You need to know A B C D E F G and their minors as well. Once you have learnt those, you need to learn 7th chords. These are the most basic chords you want to know.
If all you require is the diagrams for guitar chords, the best place to go to is:
all-guitar-chords.com
This will show you more chords than you will need to know or use.
There is an simple way to learn chords that just requires memorizing a few chords and the notes of the 5th and 6th strings (the two low strings).
Go to website mentioned and look at the E Major chord. The diagram doesn’t show the fingerings, but the text books commonly state to lay the first finger on the third string, the second finger on the fifth string, and the third finger on the fourth string.
What you can do instead, is to raise up the first finger and use the second finger on the third string, the third finger on the fifth string, and the small finger on the fourth string.
While maintaining the fingers on the strings, go them up the neck to another place and lay the first finger across the strings, making a bar, at the fret below the second finger.
This now allows you to play any major chord by moving the chord to a different fret. The root note of the chord is on the sixth string, meaning you will need to learn the notes on the sixth string.
Open – E, 1st fret – F, 3rd – G, 5th – A, 7th – B, 8th – C, 10th – D, 12th – starts back at E again. The sharp and flat notes fall at the frets in between. So if you’re first finger bar is at the fifth fret, you are playing the A Major chord.
Now take a look at the E Minor chord. You’ll see that it’s the same chord but with the third string now being played open. You can use the same principle to play this Minor chord at any place on the guitar neck.
Next take a look at the E7 chord, not the Emaj7, this is a different chord. Once Again, it’s the same as the E Major chord, this time it’s the fourth string that’s played open. And again, it can be played at any fret on the neck.
You can now play any Major, Minor, or 7th chord just by learning one chord and moving up or down the neck.
If you don’t desire to keep moving your hands up and down the neck so much to change chords, you can use another chord shaping.
Take a look at the A Major chord this time. Here you can see that the root note is on the fifth string. Rather than holding the three strings down with individual fingers, I place the third finger across the three strings and use the first finger to bar the remaining strings when I go it up the neck of the guitar.
Playing the chord this way, you might find that the first string gets muted. It just takes practice, but if you are playing rock with distortion, it might not matter too much. Also note, it shows that you don’t play the sixth string. You can because that note is part of the chord. The reason they show the sixth string as not played is because, in theory, the lowest note played must be root note of the chord, which is the fifth string.
So, whether you play the sixth string or not is up to you. Whether the first string is played or muted, again it’s up to you.
You need to learn the notes on the fifth string to use this chord.
Open – A, 2nd fret – B, 3rd – C, 5th – D, 7th – E, 8th – F, 10th – G, 12th – starts back at A again.
If you’re playing a G chord at the third fret with the E style chord, you don’t have to go all the way up to the eighth fret to play C. Just raise the third and small fingers and place the third finger down across the second, third, and fourth strings, with the first finger still maintaining the bar at the third fret.
You can do the same with the A Minor chord and A7 chord. You should be getting the thought now.
A simpler way to play the A7 chord is to leave the third finger bar in place from the A Major chord and position the small finger on the third fret of the first string. This still gives the A7 chord and can still be played at different positions on the neck.
Now on to power chords. Power chords are really simple. Let’s say you want a G power chord. Go to the G note on the sixth string which is at the third fret. Place your first finger there. Place your third finger two frets up on the fifth string at the fifth fret. This is your G power chord.
This is really a G5 chord, theoretically. If you know your major scales, the note on the fifth string is the fifth note of the major scale.
This can also be done up and down the guitar neck.
You can also do this using the fifth and fourth strings with the note on the fifth string being the root note.
You can also do the power chords with three strings. With the G power chord, place the third finger over both the fifth and fourth strings at the fifth fret. This extra note on the fourth string is another G note an octave higher.
With the fifth string root note power chord, go the third finger down on to the fourth string leaving the first finger barring both the fifth and sixth strings. The note on the sixth string is another fifth note of the major scale one octave lower.
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