Ask most people what they first learned to play on guitar and they will probably tell you "guitar chords". This tends to be the shortest route to producing some kind of music from the instrument especially in the early stages of learning.
As a beginning guitar player you really don't need many chords to get you going. Even a basic set of 10 chords will open the door to 100's of popular songs instantly!
We group guitar chords into respective families based upon their type and how they are built. As a beginner you need only concern yourself with 3 main families of chords. They are Major, Minor and Dominant 7 chords. Using these you'll have the basic structure required for songs.
For beginners it can be quite a challenge to sound guitar chords clearly, even the easier ones. Most find that learning the shapes are relatively easy however. If you are not used to playing guitar it's likely that your fingers will hurt until a layer of harder skin has built up. This normally takes a month or two.
I refer to this as a kind of 'pain barrier' which all guitar players must go through. After a few weeks the skin on the tops of your fingers will harden and once this happens, playing guitar chords will no longer hurt you.
We divide chords into two main forms, Barre chords and open chords. Open chords consist of all the beginner guitar chords when first learning to play. They use open strings are stay fixed in the one place.
Barre chords however conversely are movable shapes and simply by transposing the shape to different parts of the neck we can produce different chords. This are harder to perform since it requires using the first finger as a bar across 5 or 6 strings. It requires strength to perform this so all notes sound clearly.
A common beginner mistake is to try to learn lots and lots of chords. This is of no real use to you when first learning to play. It's far better to concentrate on a smaller group of guitar chords and ones you'll use consistently in many different songs.
As a beginning guitar player you really don't need many chords to get you going. Even a basic set of 10 chords will open the door to 100's of popular songs instantly!
We group guitar chords into respective families based upon their type and how they are built. As a beginner you need only concern yourself with 3 main families of chords. They are Major, Minor and Dominant 7 chords. Using these you'll have the basic structure required for songs.
For beginners it can be quite a challenge to sound guitar chords clearly, even the easier ones. Most find that learning the shapes are relatively easy however. If you are not used to playing guitar it's likely that your fingers will hurt until a layer of harder skin has built up. This normally takes a month or two.
I refer to this as a kind of 'pain barrier' which all guitar players must go through. After a few weeks the skin on the tops of your fingers will harden and once this happens, playing guitar chords will no longer hurt you.
We divide chords into two main forms, Barre chords and open chords. Open chords consist of all the beginner guitar chords when first learning to play. They use open strings are stay fixed in the one place.
Barre chords however conversely are movable shapes and simply by transposing the shape to different parts of the neck we can produce different chords. This are harder to perform since it requires using the first finger as a bar across 5 or 6 strings. It requires strength to perform this so all notes sound clearly.
A common beginner mistake is to try to learn lots and lots of chords. This is of no real use to you when first learning to play. It's far better to concentrate on a smaller group of guitar chords and ones you'll use consistently in many different songs.
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