nightcrawl3r
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hi guyz. newbie here. what chords should be remembered and most played? i mean you guyz cant remember all chords right. i bet some of yall remember the most impt ones. which are those? i like to play to rock songs.
What chords to remember?
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Sorry man, yes we do remember ALL the chords, well almost all of them anyway, can't say i know all the funny variations like the open chords and augmented or stuff like that. But by and large, i dare say i know most of the chords there are. :wink: not that i'm a pro or anything.
there really aren't that many chords. its really quite easy after a while. How long have you been playing the guitar? just keep familiarising yourself with the chords, you'll get the hang of it.
there really aren't that many chords. its really quite easy after a while. How long have you been playing the guitar? just keep familiarising yourself with the chords, you'll get the hang of it.
nightcrawl3r
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bought my guitar in dec 2003. been playing very little. just looking up tabs of rock songs that are finger picking. havent learnt to strum yet. so while i look at tabs they dont normally state the chords beside them. so i'm kinda lost on where to start.
thats quite long already. lol. its ok, chords are quite easy to pick up one lor, for example all the bar chords fingering almost the same, just slide up and down the neck only. easy. can always look up the chords on websites that show the fingering. or you can always learn to strum to a song you like. that would make learning more fun. :wink:
There are a lot of variations of chords. such as 5ths, 7ths, diminished or augmented. Stuff like that. If you want to know more you can ask your friends who play the piano. I really don't know how to explain them properly. but usually when you strum to songs on the radio and stuff they rarely use such chords. IMHO. i'm not really a pro or anything so take what i say with a pinch of salt. hopefully someone really good at theory and stuff can come and answer all your questions. for starters just learn the barre chords. then just slide them up and down the neck. :wink:
http://www.all-guitar-chords.com/
ok if you go to the site you can see ALL or almost all the chords available. however you usually will not use the funny variations like all the augmented and diminished. Its great if you know them and know when to apply them i guess, but its hardly necessary IMHO, very few songs actually use them, at least the ones that i've come across anyway.
even if you just want to play a normal C major chord you'll see that there are about 5 variations. i can't say that i know ALL the chords, i guess maybe i was exaggerating.
but i know enough to be able to strum the chords of almost every song is infront of me.
http://www.all-guitar-chords.com/
ok if you go to the site you can see ALL or almost all the chords available. however you usually will not use the funny variations like all the augmented and diminished. Its great if you know them and know when to apply them i guess, but its hardly necessary IMHO, very few songs actually use them, at least the ones that i've come across anyway.
even if you just want to play a normal C major chord you'll see that there are about 5 variations. i can't say that i know ALL the chords, i guess maybe i was exaggerating.
but i know enough to be able to strum the chords of almost every song is infront of me.
koolguy74sg
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Basically for example for C chord, you have to know the degree and which chord progression is basically for minor and which chord is for major.
Take for example C chord is the root note, then the chord sequence is
Degree I II III IV V VI VII
Chord C- Dm- Em - F- G- Am- Bdim
Root note : C
From the chord progression, you can see that degree II, III and VI is basically minor chords, I, IV, V
are basically major chords. VII can be a diminished chord, but for pop music they usually play B-flat for C as root note if you want a chord that sounds a bit different when you change from C to G, i.e. instead of using C-F-G, you can also use C-Bflat-G.
Just remember this basic chord progresssion and you can use it for basic guitar playing. Next, you were saying what chords is suitable for a song. This can be obtained by humming the sound with respect to the root note, and check which key suits it, then add some chord variation to it. For chord variation, it depends on the music style of song. For example, Folk song, you can use Maj7 for the root note eg. Cmaj7-Dmaj7-E7-F-G-Am7-Bflat.
Rgds
kool
Take for example C chord is the root note, then the chord sequence is
Degree I II III IV V VI VII
Chord C- Dm- Em - F- G- Am- Bdim
Root note : C
From the chord progression, you can see that degree II, III and VI is basically minor chords, I, IV, V
are basically major chords. VII can be a diminished chord, but for pop music they usually play B-flat for C as root note if you want a chord that sounds a bit different when you change from C to G, i.e. instead of using C-F-G, you can also use C-Bflat-G.
Just remember this basic chord progresssion and you can use it for basic guitar playing. Next, you were saying what chords is suitable for a song. This can be obtained by humming the sound with respect to the root note, and check which key suits it, then add some chord variation to it. For chord variation, it depends on the music style of song. For example, Folk song, you can use Maj7 for the root note eg. Cmaj7-Dmaj7-E7-F-G-Am7-Bflat.
Rgds
kool
nightcrawl3r
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damn. it's already hard to play these chords. this theory aint helping me a lil bit. wonder if i shd really get deep into theory or just practice the tabs.
nightcrawl3r
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e||------------------|----------------|----------------|-----------------||
B||------------------|----------------|----------------|-----------------||
G||o-----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------o||
D||o--3---2-2--0---0-|-3---2-2--0---0-|-3---2-2--0---0-|-3---2-2--0---0-o||
A||-------------\3---|-----------\3---|-1---------\3---|-----------\3----||
E||-[10]-------------|[5]-------------|[3]-------------|[0]--------------||
ok guyz. need some help here. this tabs is for the song Violent Femmes - Color me Once. this is just the intro. i believe it's tabbed by a rookie. but u guyz can tell me what \3 means? here's the actual link. thx. in fact it'd be great if u guyz can explain the whole tab. there's all this 'o' at the G and D strings.
http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/v/violent_femmes/color_me_once_tab.htm
B||------------------|----------------|----------------|-----------------||
G||o-----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------o||
D||o--3---2-2--0---0-|-3---2-2--0---0-|-3---2-2--0---0-|-3---2-2--0---0-o||
A||-------------\3---|-----------\3---|-1---------\3---|-----------\3----||
E||-[10]-------------|[5]-------------|[3]-------------|[0]--------------||
ok guyz. need some help here. this tabs is for the song Violent Femmes - Color me Once. this is just the intro. i believe it's tabbed by a rookie. but u guyz can tell me what \3 means? here's the actual link. thx. in fact it'd be great if u guyz can explain the whole tab. there's all this 'o' at the G and D strings.
http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/v/violent_femmes/color_me_once_tab.htm
3notesAbar
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I think Split chords are simply chords with an alternative root note i.e. D/F#, E/B...
Simply play a Dmaj chord and add a F# root note (lowest note being F#). There you have it.
Simply play a Dmaj chord and add a F# root note (lowest note being F#). There you have it.
vernplum
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Learn D.
D is essential, especially in the open position.
D is also cool because it's very easy to add the sus4 with the pinkie, and also remove the 2nd finger to go to a sus2. You can go from being an average sounding beginner to a guitar god (at least perceived by your ignorant audience) just by doing that and little variations on it.
Here's what Dsus2, D and Dsus4 look like:
E---0---2---3
B---3---3---3
G---2---2---2
D---0---0---0
A-----x
E-----x
Cool huh? Jimmy Page does that just before the solo in 'Stairway'.
If in doubt, strum a D. It always brightens up my day.
C is also cool.
I never liked B or F. Especiallly F. I'd ignore songs that contain F if I were you. Songs that use D don't often use F. There are so many songs out there that there is a good chance you can get by without ever having to learn F.
G is another good one.
Oh, and A. Don't forget A.
LEGAL DISCLAIMER: This message is intended as humour. Please don't sue me if you are ejected from your band for not knowing an F chord. Vern does in fact advocate learning F. No Fs were harmed in the writing of this message. For further information on F see the subsequent messages that jump to the defence of F and also tab it out.
D is essential, especially in the open position.
D is also cool because it's very easy to add the sus4 with the pinkie, and also remove the 2nd finger to go to a sus2. You can go from being an average sounding beginner to a guitar god (at least perceived by your ignorant audience) just by doing that and little variations on it.
Here's what Dsus2, D and Dsus4 look like:
E---0---2---3
B---3---3---3
G---2---2---2
D---0---0---0
A-----x
E-----x
Cool huh? Jimmy Page does that just before the solo in 'Stairway'.
If in doubt, strum a D. It always brightens up my day.
C is also cool.
I never liked B or F. Especiallly F. I'd ignore songs that contain F if I were you. Songs that use D don't often use F. There are so many songs out there that there is a good chance you can get by without ever having to learn F.
G is another good one.
Oh, and A. Don't forget A.
LEGAL DISCLAIMER: This message is intended as humour. Please don't sue me if you are ejected from your band for not knowing an F chord. Vern does in fact advocate learning F. No Fs were harmed in the writing of this message. For further information on F see the subsequent messages that jump to the defence of F and also tab it out.
koolguy74sg
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nightcrawl3r said:
Well....Chord theory is another story beside chord progression. Basically you first need to know the scale for the root note. Let say C key.
Degree of C can be seen by C-D-E-F-G-A-B-C.
Just remember the chord formula for major and minor.
Major:
1 3 5 (apply for all major chords)
Minor
1 3flat 5 (For minor the middle (3) should be flatten) (apply for all minor chords)
So for C key, it is C E G
For Cm key, it would be C E-flat G.
C chord is the best remembered key.
However, for major chord, certain key the middle note can be sharpen. for example, for D chord, the chord is D-F#-A with middle note F#. How to know remember whether middle note is sharp or not sharp?
Remember the word Feel Cool Go Dance And Eat, FCGDAE.
or read out loud always in your mind, FCGDAE...FCGDAE...FCGDAE...
So for D chord, go count from front of FCGDAE skipping the letter before D, ie. G, which means FC..so for D chord, only F and C are sharp, that is why D-F#-A with F# for D, because F and C are sharp for D.
If you know all these, you can know as many chord as possible, as chord formula is very formidable. For chord that is most easily remembered, I would say is C chord.
If you dont remember formula by hard, then you will never know how you get the hang of all this chords.
Rgds
kool
well i guess all that kool has said is really quite essential. but i can imagine that the ppl who don't understand a word he's saying are just confused even more. If all you want is to be able to strum chords to your favourite songs just do that. find out the chords to the song you want, learn the fingering and go play music.
what kool has said is something that is essential for a guitarist who wants to improve to know. But if you just want to play for yourselves and sing aloud in your bedroom, its not really that entirely necessary at this moment. IMHO that is. just my own humble opinion.
nightcrawl3r, my opinion is that if all you want for now is to learn the fingering of various chords, pick a song you like and find the chords and fingering and play. that would help rather then just memorising the chords off a chord book. :lol:
what kool has said is something that is essential for a guitarist who wants to improve to know. But if you just want to play for yourselves and sing aloud in your bedroom, its not really that entirely necessary at this moment. IMHO that is. just my own humble opinion.
nightcrawl3r, my opinion is that if all you want for now is to learn the fingering of various chords, pick a song you like and find the chords and fingering and play. that would help rather then just memorising the chords off a chord book. :lol:
koolguy74sg
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D chord is a chord that brighten up the day because the last note of D chord is play in 2nd Fret 1 string. Any key play on the first string should be quite a bright key. Next, also the base of D chord is play on the 4th string (open string). 4th string is the base string that produce more bright sound. That is why D chord is a lively chord.
Another key that sounds bright is F chord (in plucking manner). It can be obtained by 4th string 3rd fret, 3rd string 2nd fret, 2nd string 1st fret, 1st string 1st fret.
G key is also bright key but the base is at 6th string 3rd fret, so it is neutral.
Rgds
kool
Another key that sounds bright is F chord (in plucking manner). It can be obtained by 4th string 3rd fret, 3rd string 2nd fret, 2nd string 1st fret, 1st string 1st fret.
G key is also bright key but the base is at 6th string 3rd fret, so it is neutral.
Rgds
kool
koolguy74sg
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qwerty said:
If that is so, then formula does not suit you. What you need to know is where you place a C chord on the guitar, A chord on the guitar, E chord on the guitar.
You can get chord books to read up and see how they play the chord.
Or you can search from the website to look up on chords.
Nice website with pics that are helpful are like the website below:
http://www.andyna.com/guitar/guitar_all.htm
http://www.emviet.com/pvh/tapguitar/chordframe/chords_major.shtml
Rgds
kool
seekz
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well actually, i agree with qwerty that you can "sorta" know "all" the chords
basically there are the open strings ones, the regular G,C,D,A,E,Am,Em
and the rest.... are all barred form of either the A formation or the E formation. minus all the gritty details like chord voicings.. eg C7, or minor.
so basically its just the need to know the chord voicing and just shift the barred chord all over the place lah.
basically there are the open strings ones, the regular G,C,D,A,E,Am,Em
and the rest.... are all barred form of either the A formation or the E formation. minus all the gritty details like chord voicings.. eg C7, or minor.
so basically its just the need to know the chord voicing and just shift the barred chord all over the place lah.
seekz
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oh yeah, the reason i said "sorta" know all the chords becos.
chords is basically 3 or more notes.
so basically if notes XYZ for a certain chord, the same notes YZX(notes from different octaves) will also for the same chord, but its called an inversion.
So there are almost too many chords to remember, thats why PPL are able to write bogus books that boast up to 1001 chord formations and rarely can anyone use more than 20 in a song...
if you're writing a song, or learning a song, just stick to the basic chords first, no matter what kinda shit the score shit writes. Once you're familiar with it then you can try all the fancy stuff.
chords is basically 3 or more notes.
so basically if notes XYZ for a certain chord, the same notes YZX(notes from different octaves) will also for the same chord, but its called an inversion.
So there are almost too many chords to remember, thats why PPL are able to write bogus books that boast up to 1001 chord formations and rarely can anyone use more than 20 in a song...
if you're writing a song, or learning a song, just stick to the basic chords first, no matter what kinda shit the score shit writes. Once you're familiar with it then you can try all the fancy stuff.
