What chords to remember?

[teleholic]

conversely, you could learn some theory on chord construction..then you'll know how to derive every chord, some might take time though..

 

[nightcrawl3r]

thx for all ur replies guyz. i guess i will just take note of chords of the songs i wanna play. and by the way, anyone of yall managed to find what that /3 meant in the Violent Femmes - COlor me Once tab?

 

[qwerty]

the "/" or "\" in tabs refers to either sliding up or down. stuff like that can be found out at the tabbing site which usually lists the legends. :lol:

 

[Jayshen]

jus to add on my five cent worth... i think dun spend so much time on learning all the chords tt sorta thing... or else u'll get confined inside the chords... this is about music.... jus take the guitar and wack lar... its more about the feel den the theory... what's important to learn is scales... i know this guy from india... he played the whole of little wing but dunno what chords he played... cos all is improvise chords... means he jus listen and ah ga ah ga....

All those chord books are useful to see how different chords can be played... giv u ideas how to improvise... but end of the day.... the book is a guide onli... not a textbook... think of it like a dictionary not a chinese "Shou che"

 

[koolguy74sg]

That is something about chord progression, not chord construction. Chord progression meaning when you hear a song you can be able to catch hold of what type of chord the song is playing.

Yup, to catch the chord of a song, you basically need intutitive idea to create chord that suits the music piece. Basically, it is best to sing along the music and touch the fretboard to play along. If you feel that the chord does not suit, try another chord. I have explained about chord progression during my first post. Every time you listen to a song, you must first catch hold of what is the root note it is playing.

After you find the root note or key, then other chords that follow is easy. What is root note and how to find root note? Root note is the base of the song that other chord will follow with the chord progression sequence. Eg. I have explained earlier, C root key is C-Dm-Em-F-G-Am-Bb. How to find the root key? When you start singing, find the base of the song. For example, when you play "Eric clapton-Tears in heaven". when Eric Clapton start singing, hum the first tune, and then go catch hold of what base it is in the fretboard, and you slowly will know the root key of this song is A.

After finding the root key, the rest of the chords will be quite easy, if you understand the chord progression. If you learn chord progression it is easy to find the other chords, rather than spend the whole time catching all the chords of a song.

Rgds
kool

 

[marshall_law]

Just remember chords are build by using 3rds except for some like sus chords and 6 chords. The rest are build by 3rds. It's good to know more chords cause chords are the one that provide rhythms and rhythms make up 70% of a song.

If you can't use chords well, no matter how hard you whack, nobody will listen to you. And to solo well, you need to know the chords progression well. Learn the chords well and you can add in colour tone when you solo.

 

[guitar_phreak]

Learning how to build chords is really cool.

My experience when I started guitar was to learn the Major and Minor chords first. C D E F G A B..

Then learn to play the chords at different positions on the neck. All the chords involves repetitive patterns.

Then slowly learn to modify them into Suspense chords, Augment chords, Diminished chords, 7ths, 9ths..etc

I guess the hard part for me was to learn how the chords fit together.

 

[audioslave]

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.

As to what 3notebar said above.....
it called slash chord too.
if you read up "guitar cookbook" by jesse cook
it had detail explaination

 

[audioslave]

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:

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

hey kool...
your previous post of FEEL COOL GO DANCE AND EAT... FCGDAE
is very helpful.. been wanting to remember my ass off.
but then i would ready encourage we guys learn theory, not to the extension of all, but somehow or rather it would prove to be helpful