Chords

[jdolecek49]

I'm ana hard rock guy and power chords is all I know. Everytime I watch a YouTube video those guys do their intros which are simple but I can't do it because they are playing chords. And I want to learn more other types of chords but I do not know how to do it or even where or how to begin ....can you give me some advice on where and how to begin?

 

[schmee]

Start with picking some songs you like that have some complexity to them. Look them up on line by searching "(song name) + Chords" This should get you to a spot like Ultimate Guitar or etc.
Now try playing those songs based on the chords and lyrics shown. This will force you to try some new chords and styles.

 

[Robert H.]

Start looking at the barre chords on line. They work up and down the neck with the same fingering positions. Learn those forms and you’ll be on your way

 

[Collin D Plonker]

There are lots of videos on YouTube and lots of online resources. I started with the open chords (some call them cowboy chords, the ones on the first four frets. Then I learned how to move them around. Make sure you know majors and minors. Also, learn to read chord charts. They are easier to understand than tabs.

 

[Steve Holt]

The open chords are a good place to start.

I'm assuming you know how to read chord diagrams. If not, YouTube could probably help you there.

E, Emi, A, Ami, C, D, G, F and B once you're feeling bold. But if you're a power chord man you should have no problem playing B.

I agree with what was said above. The best way to learn chords is to find a song you want to learn and just learn it. Add the chords in that song to your repertoire, and the next song you learn you'll have them.

 

[burtf51]

https://www.jazzguitar.be/blog/jazz-guitar-chords/

 

[Rusty Spanner]

Hang on, there are MORE chords than the ones in that diagram above?

Who knew?

 

[FendrGuitPlayr]

I'm ana hard rock guy and power chords is all I know. Everytime I watch a YouTube video those guys do their intros which are simple but I can't do it because they are playing chords. And I want to learn more other types of chords but I do not know how to do it or even where or how to begin ....can you give me some advice on where and how to begin?

Search YouTube.

 

[unixfish]

songsterr.com is another decent place to look; find a song, it shows you how't it's played in tab. You will start seeing chords there.

Welcome.

 

[stratoman1]

Just Google like this

Guitar chords, name of song. artist

That will normally get you where you need to go

 

[68Telebass]

Welcome again!!

 

[lgyiuftudyryt]

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This thread solve my problem easily

Have a nice Day!

 

[brookdalebill]

Ted Greene’s Chord Chemistry is a great resource/reference book.
So are the two Mickey Baker books.

 

[mexicanyella]

Coming at it from a little different angle, let me add that some of this will come down to how you listen, and what you listen for.

When I was in a mostly power chords phase, I noticed a more-experienced guitar playing friend who played in a punk band used a lot of partial chords, two or three note shapes that were not the power chord shapes I used, which he would slide around and incorporate one or more adjacent open strings. It sounded pretty cool and exotic to me, but I had no idea what the method to his madness was. It seemed random and mysterious.

But it helped get me listening differently, and he seemed so casual and unconcerned about it that it got me starting to trust my ears a little more and just experiment. And that got me listening to music a little differently and storing more things away as I did, and made me more motivated to figure out what I was hearing and how to do some of that myself.

I think it’s a process that has to come from how you listen, and what you listen for, and you just have to stay interested in sounds that grab you and let your repertoire build as you keep at it.

 

[yegbert]

Shell Chords

Great video on simple shell chords.

www.tdpri.com

 

[Fenderdad1950]

Welcome from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Back in the 60s, playing regular chords was the normal route in learning songs. Lead guitar parts were a rarity that only a very few guitar players been tried. Short melodic riffs yes, but lead solos, NADA. In short .... you can do it!

 

[Stringbanger]

Welcome to the fold!

Sb

 

[Greggorios]

Not sure of your skill level but practicing some fairly simple songs was the most effective way to practice chords. I know some of the YouTube vids/guys have any number of lessons for songs for beginning players with clear, slow demonstrations of the chords. Marty Schwartz and Justin Guitar are just 2 but I think they're both pretty good. They also offer progressive lessons into intermediate level stuff as you learn. Have fun!

 

[jrblue]

Almost everyone crashes into intersection of "theory" and "playing" (concept vs. action). You either get pounded with the lingo of music theory (helpful to a degree) or you get shown how to play tunes (what chords are used, and how to form them). Just about no instructional program begins with actually hearing, rather than talking about, chords and how they sound relative to each other. I don't think that most players can really hear the differences between various chords other than hearing the root. Because I have not found a good instructional program when it comes to harmony and building chords on the guitar fretboard, I have been really frustrated in the limits to my own learning and proficiencies. What has become a breakthrough for me, and this is weird, I'm sure, is to simply pick some strange (to me) chord out of the blue -- literally, looking at song charts -- and playing it, playing with it, modifying it, until I "hear" it for what it is, and until I "can use it in a sentence," so to speak. I also just make chords sometimes, just by choosing notes on each string and hearing how the work together. I'll then look up the name if it's an unfamiliar form. This approach may seem stupid, but it has really helped me bridge the physical formation of new chords with what my ears are hearing, and the potential of what I am playing to move forward into a different chord form. There knowledge and there's art/skill and I"d rather have the latter than the former, which generally consists of turning music into ideas, which is sort of a crime IMO.