Overview of Guitar Chords and Theory

Guitar Theory In Simple -

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings. Which are named as Lower E, B, G, D, A, Higher E.The parts of the guitar along with its strings names is shown in the following picture--

GUITAR PARTS

GUITAR STRINGS NAMES

For remembering the strings names here's a beautiful line for you-

Every(E) beautiful(B) girl/guy(G) deserves(D) an(A) eye(E).

Now, guitar follows a series, which is - ABCDEFG..........ABCD(repeats again) and there is a gap of 1 fret between each chord.But, B,C and E,F doesn't have any fret gaps.

For remembering the fret names there are few symbols on some specific frets.which are-

Fret 3,7 and 12... contains two dotted symbols/markings and fret 5,9,15 contains one dotted symbol.

Guitar Series-

W- Whole Step, H - Half Step

There are few chords which are equivalent to each other.They are-

A# = Bb

C# = Db

D# = Eb

F# = Gb

G# = Ab

# - Sharp, b - Base 

From going from left to right in this series, song's pitch will go high and in the same way, upon coming back it gets lower. We've learned that only A, C, D, F, G have its sharps and base chords. We have denoted the Sharpes as "#" and the base as "b".

Talking about pitch, A pitch defines in which note the song is. Or simple terms it's describing the frequency produced by an object. For understanding you can take the example like this - Opera Musics are made up of high pitch and we are talking in low pitches. It can be inferred by the intensity of sound produced by the music.

GUITAR CHORDS -

Guitar Chords with pictures are shown below-

  

     BASIC A CHORDS

                     

  BASIC B CHORDS

  BASIC C CHORDS

BASIC D CHORDS

BASIC E CHORDS

BASIC F CHORDS

BAR chords(HOW TO PRACTICE AND SHIFT THEM  EASILY)  

   

       The simplest way to remember bar chords and play them is that luckily there are mainly four shapes in which almost all the bar chords can be played. so if we compare it with open chords I think bar chords are easy. But they need few practices to become perfect on them.But they sound far better than open chords.So don't give up.Keep practicing.Following are the main shapes of bar chords -

    

Bar Chords Shapes

Keep practising. Never give up...

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