Guitar Chords

Guitar Chords

Guitar chords is a very vast subject so we will discuss Guitar Chords in a way to give you complete overview briefly so that you will have complete idea on below queries.

By end of this post you will be able to answer all below queries,

What are Guitar Chords?

What are the different types of Guitar Chords?

Which Guitar chords are available?

How to play Guitar Chords? Etc.

Guitar Chords:

Guitar Chords is an arrangement of two or more different notes played simultaneously on guitar. We are using some customized Titles just to give you more appropriate information, I hope these are easy to understand.

Guitar Chords Name:

Guitar Chords names are formed based on included Guitar Notes. Look at the points below,

A.      Guitar Chords A, B, C, D, E, F and G.

B.      Guitar Chords Sharp or Flat : In between above mentioned Guitar Chords there are Sharp and Flat Guitar Notes are available hence Sharp Guitar Chords and Flat Guitar Chords are situated in between these. Sharp Guitar Chords have suffix ‘#’ and Flat Chords includes suffix ‘b’. e.g. A# or Bb, C# or Db, D# or Eb, F# or Gb, G# or Ab.

·         Suffix # is used for Sharp Guitar Chords. E.e G# is G sharp.

·         Suffix b is used for Flat Guitar Chords. E.g. Gb is G Flat.

·         # and b are holding positions in between Clear name Guitar Chords. Follow the Notes and Guitar Chords position in the picture below.

·         Whenever any Sharp ‘#’ is existing there must be Flat ‘b’ available in the same position.

Fig. Guitar Chords and Notes

  

Here, A# and Bb is same Note so their relevant Guitar chords are also be the same. E.g. A# Chord is same as Bb Chord. We will look at the couple of # and b pattern at the end of post.

Guitar Chords types are majorly divided into two parts:

1.       Guitar Chords Nature.

2.       Guitar Chords build or formation.

1. Guitar Chords Nature:

Guitar Chords Nature is been separated into two parts,

·         Guitar Major Chords

·         Guitar Minor Chords

Both type of Guitar Chords are having their own importance and have different formula to get the Guitar chords Pattern. Yes, there is a formula existing to find the Notes of any Major and minor Guitar chords.

2. Guitar Chords build:

This is further categorized in many Guitar Chords types,

·         Open Guitar Chords

·         Barre Guitar Chords

·         Power chord or Guitar Chords - 5

·         Suspended Guitar Chords (sus2 and sus4 Guitar Chords)

·         Guitar Chords with suffix 7.

Guitar Chords | Nature

Both Major Guitar Chords and Minor Guitar Chords for the same Chord have different pattern and shapes. As Guitar Chords formula to built Major Chord and Minor Chords are different.

Guitar Chords formula tells us the next Note to pick or you can say the sequential series of Notes to pick Guitar Chords pattern.

·         Guitar chords major chord are also known as Happy chords since they gives us happy feeling when played.

·         Guitar chords minor chord gives us sad feeling when played.

We will share Guitar Chords shapes for major and Minor Chords at the time of discussing Open Guitar Chords and next section to have more clarity.

Guitar Chords | Formation

Guitar Chords differ by formation or Build. Well, Guitar chords are building of combining multiple Notes and there different Guitar Chords are formed when we have made change on any particular Note position or if we replace the note by some other Note in a particular position within any Chord depending upon the Formula to build or form particular type of Guitar Chords.

1. Guitar Chords | Open Chord:

Guitar Chords Open is the Open Positioned guitar chords that include one or more strings which are not fingered. In an open chord a fingered string will be partially damped and produce Guitar chords sound however the un-fingered strings are un-damped so un-fingered string vibrates freely.

These Guitar chords have both major and minor. To symbolize major chord we don’t need to use any suffix whereas for minor we are using ‘m’ suffix. E.g. A Chord is A chord and Am is A minor Chord.

Some good examples of Guitar Chords Open chords are A, C, E and F Guitar Chords.

Guitar Chords Pattern:

·         Guitar Chords | A:

Fig. Guitar Chords | A major Chord

·         Guitar Chords | Am:

Fig. Guitar Chords | A Minor Chord

·         Guitar Chords | C:

Fig. Guitar Chords | C major Chord

·         Guitar Chords | E:

Fig. Guitar Chords | E major Chord

·         Guitar Chords | Em:

Fig. Guitar Chords | E Minor Chord

·         Guitar Chords | F:

Fig. Guitar Chords | F Major Chord

·         Guitar Chords | Fm:

Fig. Guitar Chords | F Minor Simplified Chord

2. Guitar Chords Barre:

These Guitar Chords have barre (Bar). Barre is basically the activity of index finger on fretboard to lock all the 6 strings on particular fret.

Rest 3 fingers are placed as open chords only but due to barre all open strings which are not pressed and played open in open chords are pressed here in Barre chord on that particular fret.

Barre gives us control over the time duration of existence of generated sound and muting effect of Guitar Chords. These Guitar Chords are also have major and minor chords.

You should go through the below Guitar Chords patterns to play barre chords.

Guitar Chords Pattern:

 ·         Guitar Chords | B:

Fig. Guitar Chords | B Chord

·         Guitar Chords | C:

Fig. Guitar Chords | C Chord

·         Guitar Chords | D:

Fig. Guitar Chords | D Chord

·         Guitar Chords | E:

Fig. Guitar Chords | E Chord

·         Guitar Chords | F:

Fig. Guitar Chords | F Chord

·         Guitar Chords | G:

Fig. Guitar Chords | G Chord

3. Guitar Chords - 5 | Power Chord:

Power Guitar Chords are generally known as Two Note Chord pattern, first Note is the Root Note which decides the name of the Guitar Chords and Second Note is the Fifth Note in the Scale. Due to this 5^th Note Power Chord is symbolized as ‘5’. 

E.g. B Power chord is B5 & C power Chord is C5. In B5, B tells us the name of the Power Chord and 5 tells us that this is a Power Chord.

Fig. Guitar Chords | Power Chord

Also, We can called Power Chord as Three Note Chord which includes Root Note as the first Note and this Root Note will decides the Name of the Power Chord, Second Note is the Fifth Note in the Scale however the Third Note is the same Note but 1 Octave Higher.

In this post we’ll go through 2 Guitar power Chords only. If you want to have complete knowledge on each and every power chord so you can check it ‘Guitar Chords | Power chord’, we have neatly explain everything on Guitar power Chords in highlighted lesson.

Guitar Chords Pattern:

Guitar Chords B Power Chord:

Fig. Guitar Chords | B5 Chord

Guitar Chords C Power Chord:

Fig. Guitar Chords | C5 Chord

3. Guitar Chords | Suspended:

Suspended Guitar Chords are basically to give different flavor to the songs and it is majorly used in Pop music.

Majorly there are 2 types of suspended Guitar chords existing,

·         Sus2

·         Sus4

Gsus4 Chord is G Suspended 4 Chord.

Basically any major chord is a combination of Root Note, 3^rd Note and the 5^th Note. In order to play Sus2 chord you need to replace the middle 3^rd note with the 2^nd Note. However to play sus4 you need to replace the 3^rd note with the 4^th Note.

Let’s take up an example of C Chord and try to find the Csus4 Chord notes quickly. First write down the Note series starting from C i.e. C D E F G A B C.

Root note is C, 4^th Note is F and 5^th Note is G. So Csus4 should consist of C, F and G Notes.

Guitar Chords Pattern:

·         Guitar Chords | Dsus2:

Fig. Guitar Chords | Dsus2 Chord

·         Guitar Chords | Dsus4:

Fig. Guitar Chords | Dsus4 Chord

·         Guitar Chords | Gsus2:

Fig. Guitar Chords | Gsus2 Chord

·         Guitar Chords | Gsus4:

Fig. Guitar Chords | Gsus4 Chord

4. Guitar Chords 7:

Guitar Chords 7 are majorly used to play Blues and folk music.

Guitar Chords 7 sound Blue just like major chords are Happy chords. These Chords have both major and minor and are quite easy to play.

We will pick Guitar chords 7 at random as D7, F7, G7, Gm7 (Here Gm7 is G minor 7 and all others are major 7).

Guitar Chords Pattern:

·         Guitar Chords | D7:

Fig. Guitar Chords | D7 Chord

·         Guitar Chords | F7:

Fig. Guitar Chords | F7 Chord

·         Guitar Chords | G7:

Fig. Guitar Chords | G7 Chord

·         Guitar Chords | Gm7:

Fig. Guitar Chords | Gm7 Chord

Guitar Chords (Sharp or Flat)

Guitar Chords Sharp (#) and Flat (b) are positioned in between clear Chords specially in case of Barre Chords. If we keep the Note position intact and move the shape one fret higher then we can play the next Barre Chord. Check the representation of Notes and Guitar Chords in figure below,

Fig. Guitar Chords | Sharp and Flat Chord Position

Note, there is no B# and E# Guitar chords exists.

Now let's check out couple of Guitar Chords pattern to have idea on these Guitar Chords shapes.

Guitar Chords Pattern:

·         Guitar Chords | A#:

Fig. Guitar Chords | A# Chord

·         Guitar Chords | C#:

Fig. Guitar Chords | C# Chord

·         Guitar Chords | D#:

Fig. Guitar Chords | D# Chord

·         Guitar Chords | F#:

Fig. Guitar Chords | F# Chord

·         Guitar Chords | G#:

Fig. Guitar Chords | G# Chord

In this post we have just tried to cover types of Guitar chords and their introduction and pattern. So as to make you familiar with Guitar Chords. I hope you have enjoyed this lesson. To get more details on these Guitar Chords and different techniques and similar lessons check out our complete blog How to Play Guitar Chords.

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