Guitar Chord Charts

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By LanaGarcia

Making use of free guitar chord charts

This hub will show you how to make the best use of free guitar chord charts that you can find online.

You can collect many chord charts and lyrics to your favorite songs to help you learn to play the guitar. Once you have started to learn using guitar chord charts you have bought or downloaded for free, you might see as you go along that you will need to know a little bit about musical theory to see how chords and scales fit together.

How To Play Beginner Guitar Chords



Learning the guitar fret board

You know the frets on your guitar's neck show you where the notes are, so let's get more technical. You will see on scale charts that in a given position on the fret board, you will sometimes be required to move up or down one fret or two frets. If you play the note at the first fret, and then move up to the second fret, you have moved up a semitone. If you have moved up two frets, it is called a tone. The distance between the notes E and F or B and C is a tone. The distance between the notes C and D is a tone. So as you learn songs in different keys you will start to see that what you are playing when you play scales is different patterns of tones or semi tones on the guitar neck.

Guitar chords for songs

When you are learning chords to accompany songs, you will probably make use of your chord charts showing you chords that use all the guitar's strings. But if you want to get into playing solos start with the three note chords called triads. The three notes in a triad are the basic notes of your chord, so by learning triads you will begin to see how the guitar chords are structured. Also you can move your triads up and down the fret board to make new chords.

Here's an example:

The chord of A Major is made up of the notes A C# and E shown in tab form as:

E-----------------------------------------

B--------------2--------------------------

G--------------2--------------------------

D--------------2--------------------------

A-----------------------------------------

E-----------------------------------------

Move that shape one semitone (one fret) up the neck and you get A# or Bb.

E-----------------------------------------

B--------------3--------------------------

G--------------3--------------------------

D--------------3--------------------------

A-----------------------------------------

E-----------------------------------------

One fret higher is B Major.

E-----------------------------------------

B--------------4--------------------------

G--------------4--------------------------

D--------------4--------------------------

A-----------------------------------------

E-----------------------------------------

Basic Guitar Chords

Movable chords

This shape played anywhere on the neck will give you a major chord. The fret it is played at tells you the key it is in.

Here are the notes for the triads of the basic chords:

C Major - C E G

D Major - D F# A

E Major - B E G#

F Major - C F A

G Major - G B D

A Major - A C# E

B Major - B D# F#

Now the minor chords:

C Minor - C Eb G

D Minor - D F A

E Minor - B E G

F Minor - C F Ab

G Minor - G Bb D

A Minor - A C E

B Minor - B D F#

Learn more about guitar chords at Learn How To Play A Guitar For Free

Guitar chord charts mentioned in blogs

  • Guitar Chord Diagrams An Essential Tool for Learning to Play the Guitar

    Guitar Chord Diagrams An Essential Tool for Learning to Play the Guitar Posted by boyberm on June 7th, 2008 How do you use guitar chord diagrams? A complete understanding of how to read and use diagrams of guitar chords is essential knowledge for any guitar player, from the “greenhorn” beginner to more advanced players. The best and easiest path to becoming a competent guitar player is by learning some chords and then applying them to learning the rhythm parts of songs. Guitar chord diagram - 2 months ago

  • Excellent Resources on Beginning Guitar Lesson Tips

    There is a veritable barrage of online resources for guitarists: how to select an instrument, how to care for it, chord charts for songs and sheet music along with lessons for various guitar techniques and styles. - 3 months ago

  • Robbie Seay Chord Charts

    I have currently written charts for 3 songs off of Robbie Seay Band’s latest release Give Yourself Away. Since they played New Day on that Oprah show last night, I’ll probably try to get that one up in the next day or two. Here’s what I have done so far: Song of Hope Rise Shine Your Light on Us - 4 months ago

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kd-a  says:
2 months ago

Cool, thanks for the info and the videos.

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