Guitar Chords Lesson – A Foundation For Guitar
Because the title states this post is going to cover an instrument chords lesson, because chords are one of the most important aspects of guitar playing. Even if you are listening to music with blistering guitar solos or even a song with almost no guitar to be heard whatsoever, the foundation of those songs rest firmly on top of the chords underneath. So no matter what you do on guitar, you are going to have to learn about chords.
You probably found this article since you were looking for a guitar chords lesson, but in all honesty what you really need might be a bit of music theory. Yes, the dreaded music theory is tough work, but once you realize the basics, you will know more options than any basic guitar chords lesson could educate you on! So I’m going to explain in this post what a chord is and just how it is constructed.
So what exactly is a guitar chord anyway? Well no matter what instrument you play a chord can be a chord. It doesn’t matter if it’s played on guitar, piano or any other instrument. Ok, just what chord? In simple terms, a chord in music is any three notes played together simultaneously. So if you were to strum three open strings on your own guitar right now, you’d have played a chord! May possibly not sound that great, but it would still be a chord played on the guitar.
In a traditional sense a chord is made up of 3 special notes, which have been named and numbered as the “root”, “third” and the “fifth”. Depending on what these notes will be in the chord determine if the chord can be a major chord, minor chord, diminished chord or any other variant.
To talk about how or why a chord will be major, minor, diminished, augmented or anything else goes beyond the scope of this lesson. If you would like to learn why a chord is named the way it is named, you have to study scales, intervals and the names of those intervals. I will cover this in future articles and lessons for now you have learned a few important things.
We have covered in this guitar chords lesson that chords would be the foundation of music. Chords on guitar are not any different than any other drum. We have also discovered that in order to have a chord, there has to be 3 notes played simultaneously. Last but not least, we have discovered that the traditional chords are made up of a root, third along with a fifth.
Of course this guitar chords lesson is not the end all be all of guitar chords, however i hope that gives you a better understanding of chords generally speaking. If you want to learn more about the making of chords, you have a long road before you, but remember that, it’s certainly worth every penny! Good luck and have a fun time learning!
Just thought you may be interested in reading this guide: all guitar chords and acoustic guitar chords.
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