Learning guitar music chords

If you want to thoroughly learn guitar chords the first step is to buy or download some guitar chord charts. Also try fooling around and experimenting a little. See what makes a C major chord a C major chord. Or find how many different ways you can play the C major scale, how many places on the fretboard can you make the chords of C Dm Em F G Am and Bdim. Learning chords never ends. Every practice session yields something new.

Here is a choice quote from a blog where a guy describes his efforts at learning guitar chords:
“I figured out why fretting one less string caused me to gain a note. It was because taking my finger off that string caused a different note to be played on that string - the seventh! The ‘missing’ note that I lost my not fretting that string was still being played on one of the other strings! I have to learn to stop associating the fretting of a string with the playing of a note. Even if you are playing an open, non-fretted string, you are playing a note there. You gotta count that one. This diagraming of the notes was also very helpful in starting to help me remember what notes are where on the guitar. The more I did them, the faster I got at remembering what note was the open note on each string.”
The whole blog entry is here.

If you have ever wondered how scales are related to chords, there is an entry on Dan Denley’s blog which has three videos that explain where chords come from and how they are used in chord progressions. The entry is called how chords are related to scales

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