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Here I am going to present to you 4 chords that you need to learn. These are the first chords I learnt and are a great starting point to playing music as many many songs include these chords within them.
Take a look at the charts below
Now you have seen how chords are written, the next part is stringing chords together to make music. This is where your time in learning the previous lessons pay off and the goal of making something sound musical is achieved.
Most songs will be made up of more than one chord. One chord is played and the next follows. We call this a chord progression.
Some chords when played after each other sound better than others. We will get to why later on.
Chord progressions often from the rhythm section of a song. In other words they provide the backing whilst the singer sing the melody. Often in songbooks or music on the Internet, words will be written out for the song and the chords will be shown above the words indicating when to play or change chords. (more…)
Hi again, Firstly apologies that this second part has taken so long to show itself. I have been extremely busy with other projects. Anyhow – lets get back to business.
In How to Read Chords part 1 we talked about using Tab to read chords. Whilst this is a great method it can sometimes look a little messy and difficult to easily see what is going on. Here I am going to introduce the Chord Chart.
If you asked a guitarist to write a chord for you or, if you bought a chord book the chord would most likely be shown as a chord chart.
Before we dive into playing some chords I’m going to show you how easy it is to read chords. This will allow you to pick up any songbook, or music sheet and easily play the chords to a piece of music. Having said that, although it is easy to read the chords, some chords are not that easy to position your fingers onto or easily change to and from!
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One of the lovely things about playing the guitar is the fact that you can pick up the guitar and start strumming and singing along to lots of different songs. You don’t have to be the best singer in the world (more…)
