Beginner Guitarist - The Easy Chord - Learning Guide
Beginner Guitarist - The Easy Chord - Learning Guide
There's a common beginner guitarist goal and it's usually to learn a ton of chords over time. Sometimes it even has to do with memorizing all the chords from a giant book that might have over a thousand chords in it!
So let's think about this. You pull out the book and decide to learn maybe one chord per week. The first chord might go very well. That's great! So, you move on to the next chord, and the second is pretty smooth as well. This sounds awesome! However, many early players find that by the third chord, they might forget one of the first two! What happened?
If you've ever attempted this common beginner guitarist goal, you might find that it's fairly common for players to have difficulties with this blind approach to chord memorization. All this means is that a another plan of attack is required for best results...
The common problem with learning chords blindly is that most early players don't stop to realize how any of these chord formations make sense together. To learn guitar fast is a great idea, but it doesn't make any sense if you don't have a method to your madness.
Think of it this way. If you were to learn another language, knowing a few words is OK, but it does nothing to develop a consistent means of communication. The important part about the language is the structuring of ideas and how sentences are formed with all those detailed pieces connecting them together.
When you're trying to memorize chords and create this arsenal of formations inside your head, you have to realize the mindset of structure and relationships between chords or you'll fall into the common beginner guitarist trap.
The first thing to think about is knowing how to take apart a scale in a manner of thirds. For instance, deriving a C' chord from the Cmaj' scale is very simple.
Here's the Cmaj' scale: C, D, E, F, G, A, B, and C
When you start at the C', skip the D', and move onto the E' that follows you will have traveled a musical third and these will be the first two notes of our C' chord.
C - E
Now, we'll skip the F' and take note of the G' in the scale. We've traveled another third in the Cmaj' scale and the G' note becomes the final part of our beginner guitarist C' chord.
Surprisingly enough, that's all there is to it! And now we have a C' chord using the notes:
C - E - G
Does it matter what kind of C', E', or G' notes you use on the fret board to make your chord. It absolutely does not. Anywhere you play a C', E', and G' together, you're making the C' chord. However, we're not going to stop there because there's even more of a system to knowing the chords by creating "sections" on the fret board.
For our purpose, we can divide the strings up and use three strings next to each other in each instance. But, we still have quite a variety of options here. Here are the different beginner guitarist string section options:
Option 1: High E - B - G
Option 2: B - G - D
Option 3: G - D - A
Option 4: D - A - Low E
The idea here is to find all of the versions of our chord on one string option at a time before we go on to another. For example, here are three formations for the C' chord using option 1:
--0----3----8--
--1----5----9--
--0----5----9--
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Those three pretty much cover all the C' chords on the first option of strings since if you go past the twelfth fret, they just repeat themselves.
Now, you know that as a beginner guitarist, there's a rhyme and reason to chords and how they're formed and put together regarding your instrument. Use this example as a way to explore all the possibilities for chords in any key that you might come across.
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