If you are not familiar with playing guitar at all then cheer up and try to learn guitar chords – they are the easiest things to learn. You just need a good reference, something like a chord dictionary, so you could learn and memorize the shape of any chord you want. Using this information will help you figure out what the different types of chord are and should give you an edge when you’re ready to learn some of the music theory involved in chord construction. Well let`s start to learn by uncovering the mystery of some chord-related jargon.
INFORMATIONG REGARDING THE BASIC CHORDS
The chord which is created from 3 (usually distinct) notes played simultaneously is the simplest. An F-major chord, for example, consists of the notes F, A and C. Note that all of the basic major and minor chords can be created with just 3 notes.
WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT ADVANCED CHORDS
3 notes are not a strict limit for a chord and it is mustn`t be unique for every note. It means that, if you play F-major as a ‘Barre’ chord you will have the following pattern of 6 notes: F-C-F-A-C-F. As the matter of fact you can have a chord with more notes than you have fingers!
The chords which are created by stacking intervals, adding or suspending tones and creating inversions are the most complex. So as you can see a D-major9#11 is built by adding the 7th, 9th and 11th tones of the D-major scale on top of a D-major chord.
If you asking yourself: how is it possible? There are only 8 notes within the scale. No big deal then! It means that the 9th and 11th notes are actually just repeated notes, started from the beginning of the scale. In this case, the 9th note is ‘E’ and the 11th note is ‘G’. Here are some terms for you to start train your memory with music-related terms: augmented (aug), suspended (sus), diminished (dim), add, subtract(-).
TIPS ON POWER CHORDS
Note that power chords are technically not chords in the precise sense because they consist of only two notes. They are actually intervals of what’s referred to as ‘bare fifths’. The bottom (low) strings of the guitar are the easiest place to play them.
If you want to create a ‘bare fifth’ interval, all you have to do is drop the “third” from a basic chord, and just play the root note with the dominant fifth. An A-major power chord, for example, is just the notes A and E. Remember the song “Jessie’s Girl”, by Rick Springfield? The main riff of the song is a progression of power chords. Try playing it in D-major using the following progression of fifths starting from the 5th fret position: D/A, A/E, B/E, G/D, A/E, D/A.
So this is all about the basics. If you felt a desire to find out more about how to create your own chords, you should find some good theory book that will certainly tell you about all relationships between scales, chords and modes.
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