Friday, 21 January 2011

The Eight Essential Beginner Open Chords

All there chords are covered in the Beginners Course. If you don't know them I would strongly suggest you going through the course and learning them properly - as well as knowing the shapes you should learn how to practice them, use them and change between them!

Click on the chord to go to a lesson that teaches it!

D Chord
A Chord
E Chord
G Chord
C Chord
A Minor Chord
E Minor Chord
D Minor Chord

Dominant 7th Open Chords (Beginners)

Dominant 7th Chords shapes are really cool for blues and folk. They are taught in my Beginners Course too. These are all essential chords and every guitarist worth their salt should know these too!


Click on the chord to go to a lesson that teaches it!

G7 Chord
C7 Chord
B7 Chord
A7 Chord
D7 Chord
E7 Chord

F Chord For Beginners

The F Chord is famous for being a bugger to learn. Check of the lessons on the Beginners Course so you work out which one is the one for you for where you are at right now...

Click on the chord to go to a lesson that teaches it!

F Chord (easy)
F Chord (easy-ish)
F Chord (full barre)

Suspended Open Chords (Beginners)

Suspended chords are usually used to embellish normal chords - so it's important to learn how to use them, not just what the shape is! Again, these are covered in the Beginners Course...

Click on the chord to go to a lesson that teaches it!

Asus2 Chord
Asus4 Chord
Dsus2
Dsus4 Chord
Esus2
<--- no lesson on this Esus2 because it doesn't sound as cool, it's not as easy to use at the others. I've just included it here for the sake of completion! It kinda looks like a B Power Chord but with the E bass note.
Esus4

Common Open Slash Chords (Beginners)

No they have nothing to do with Slash from Guns 'n' Roses - they are chords with a bass note other than the root. These are all covered in the Beginners Course and are all very common and sound cool. There are many thousands of possibilities, but these are the ones you are most likely to find in the real world because they sound good!

Click on the chord to go to a lesson that teaches it!

D/F# Chord
G/B Chord
C/G Chord

Power Chords (Beginners)

These are the starting point for barre chords, learning these first will make the transition to full barre grips a load easier! They again are part of Beginners Course... The cool thing is that the shape remains the same, you just have to move them around! Click on the chord shapes to get the full lesson and learn how to use the root notes and all that! It's real important...

Click on the chord to go to a lesson that teaches it!

Power Chord (6th string root)
Power Chord (5th String Root)



E Shape Barre Chord Grips (Intermediate)

These are covered in The Intermediate Course and links will be added when the course is fully live...

Major Barre Chord
Minor Barre Chord
& Barre Chord
Minor 7 Barre Chord

A Shape Barre Chord Grips (Intermediate)

These are covered in The Intermediate Course and links will be added when the course is fully live...

Major Barre Chord
Minor Barre Chprd
7 Barre Chord
Minor 7 Barre Chord

Triad Chord Grips (Intermediate)

These are covered in The Intermediate Course and will be added when the course is fully live... but I also have a lesson on them that I will pull down once the intermediate ones are live, cos I think I did the lesson better on that and it's essentially the same!

CH-008 • Triad Chords

Triad Grip 1
Triad Grip 2
Triad Grip 3


The CAGED System (Intermediate)

I have a 6 lesson series on The CAGED system, starts with a video and is then text and illustrations (it's also the last part of Practical Music Theory) and at this stage you really need to understand what it is and how it works and WHY it's so important!

TB-030 • The CAGED System



Extended 4 Note Chords in The CAGED System (Intermediate)

I explain a great way to learn and UNDERSTAND most of the extended 4 note chords in the CAGED System in myChord Construction Guide ebook. It really works and will help you understand how barre chords are constructed and how to play them - if you do it properly you no longer need to memorise hundreds of chords, you will understand how to create them from the basic CAGED shapes! See the unedited reviews in the forum here. It really works!

Basic Jazz Chords (Intermediate)

This lesson cover the ten jazz chords that you will need to get down to start playing jazz. I made it for the jazz section - but it is needed here too ;) JA-001 • Basic Jazz Chords

Click on the chord to go to a lesson that teaches it!

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