Guitar Chords - TheGuitarLesson.com

Guitar chords are an integral part of playing guitar. You'll find a bunch of useful information on chords, including how to learn chords as a beginner guitarist, chord theory, chord progressions, charts and fingerings, and much more.

You'll see it's pretty easy once you know the basics, so dive right in.

Chord charts

Beginner's chords

Learning guitar chords (sometimes misspelled as guitar cord) is one of the first steps a beginner guitarist will take in learning to play the guitar.

Learning chords will already enable you to play real music and songs, which is really the reason you picked up the guitar in the first place.

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Chord theory

Through learning guitar chords theory, you will be able to understand how chords on the guitar are constructed. You'll learn to create chords all over the fretboard, once you know how to construct chords as well.

As a beginner guitarist, this is not that relevant, but as you advance in your guitar studies, you will want to do more than just play chords, you’ll want to understand why your favorite songs sound the way they do.

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Power chords

A power chord is not a real chord, it's actually a diad, which is 2 notes played together. Guitar power chords are very versatile, since the shape can be moved all over the fretboard.

Power chords are mostly played on electric guitars under distortion. Mostly rock and heavy metal guitar players use power chords, since it gives a low, aggressive sound under distortion, and give a feeling of raw power.

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