Guitar Chords - An Easy Start To Play Guitar

When you strum more then one string together at once, you're playing a chord. In plain English: you'll have to use more then one finger to pull this off.

You can use all or some strings at a time but the strings used do not have to be adjacent.

Just looking for some chord charts? Use our downloadable guitar chord charts link.

Many chords can be played on a guitar but not all are easy to form. When you play guitar like me or aunt Judy, you have one hand (but only four fingers) to compose your chords. So for some chords you'll have to drop one or more tones. Most likely root or fifth string will be dropped. For other chords one finger is used to hold down more then one string. Like with the F chord.

Learn more on how to read guitar chords

Although a chord is a composition of several notes, when played it produces a note itself. And as guitar notes are depicted by letters, guitar chords are named the same way:A;B;C;G....

But wait a minute. Aren't there more chords then letters? A guitar has frets enough to play several octaves so there's plenty of chords to choose from. To be able to name all chords, letters, numbers and symbols are combined. Some examples: A ; B ; A+ ; Ama7 ; Gbma7...

Bored practicing separate chords? Try some three chord guitar songs. It's the next logical step!

This does not have to be a page of 5000 words to tell you what you already knew:

Don't study chords, play 'm! Practice, practice, practice.....