Category: Chords

Dan Denley is giving away five bonus videos to every single person who orders a copy of his Ultimate Guide To Chords by midnight, Friday, August 8.

These videos are about creating simple solos. Here’s just ONE of the tips you’ll discover: Once you’ve learned the patterns of pentatonic minor scale, you’ve learned them for the major pentatonic scale.

And he shows you the EXACT process he uses when writing a solo from scratch. Just real technique that you can put into practice immediately. There also two jam tracks (live instruments) so you can practice your new solo skills.

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Because I have been posting a little about playing chords lately, I thought I would remind you of an old post called Basic Guitar Chords And How To Play Them
Also I wanted to pass along this video on ten great tips about guitar chords It’s mostly a pitch for Dan Denley’s new guitar course, Ultimate Guide To Chords which is coming out this Thursday, July 31 at 12:00PM Eastern. So, if you’re not interested in the course, just go to the 4 minute mark where the tips start.

There is a number of guitar chords that beginner guitarists can learn easily so they can start playing songs on the guitar as soon as possible. You have probably seen guitar players moving barre chords up and down the neck of the guitar using their index finger as a bar across all the strings. Beginner guitar players usually learn “open” chords which use only two or three fingers to make notes on the fretboard and the other strings in the chord are played without any fingers pressing down on them.

So you choose simple arrangements of your songs that make use of open chords like this:

E 0———————

B –1——————-

G –3——————-

D –2——————-

A 0———————

E X———————

This is the A minor chord. The X tells us that the sixth string is not played. On the first and fifth strings where the 0 is, the open strings sound. For the other strings, the B string is played on the first fret, the G string is played at the third fret and the D string at the second fret.

Learning open chords is easy even for beginner guitar players. You will get some resistance from your body at first because you are making it do things it is not used to, but soon the routine of learning chord shapes will become quite pleasant.

The thing most people need to pay attention to is HOW you change over from one chord to the next.

When you see guitar players messing up chord changes it is because they do not practice their chord changes slowly and smoothly. This is the essence of learning guitar chords. You need to start fresh every day, practicing slow chord changes as though for the first time. After a while this will become second nature and your chord changing will become faster.

This post on guitar chords for beginners has the starting point that you want to begin playing the guitar by learning songs you have heard on the radio or on CDs. This way you will be getting your basic chords down fast and easily without learning much about their theoretical framework. Another way is to learn your guitar chords according to the “families” they are in. A chord family is a bunch of chords that are related to each other simply because they sound nice together. For example, if you are learning a song that finishes on the G chord, you will be using the G family of chords which consists of the G, A minor, C, D and E minor chords.

And today’s YouTube video is on easy guitar chords.