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What Comprises a Guitar Chord?

The guitar has always been a sensuous musical instrument that can touch the inner most feelings of men and women through carefully rendered rhythmic contortions. From Jimmy Hendrix to Mark Knopfler and from David Gilmour to Steve Vai or Joe Satriani; the guitar has made many a legend whose great compositions have gone down in the hall of fame. At the heart of any great composition is the guitar chord. So that’s where we will start our journey.

A single guitar chord consists of several tones, which can be played together using strings to bring out rhythmic sound. A guitar chord can use a single string or multiple strings for adding variation to a composition although the new age distortion sound that you hear on an electric guitar is a combination of chords and other external gadgets.

The Guitar Strings and Chord Diagrams

The guitar has six strings and they are tuned in such a way that the lowest pitched string is at the bottom and the highest pitched string is at the top. The strings are E-A-D-G-B-E and you can make a composition using the strings at a particular junction on the fret board. The chords are distributed into four categories: major, minor, suspended and augmented. For example: let’s take a look at the chord diagram below:

This shows the position of the fingers on the fret board while playing A Major. So A major = A, C#, E. Similarly, you can play many combinations with strings E-A-D-G-B-E. The chord diagrams are essential for learning how to play a guitar as they provide tablature or tabs and or standard musical notations. There are different symbols used in chord diagrams to enable beginners to get a grasp on various chords. The most common symbols are:

1. Vertical lines: These lines represent the strings

2. Horizontal lines: These lines represent the fret

3. X: This indicates that those particular chords will not be played or used.

4. O: This indicates an open string. An open string has to be played without fretting

5. Solid Circle: The circle with solid color on the fret represents the exact finger position and the strings to be fretted. The number within the circles is also called as fret numbers.

6. Numbers: The numbers above a string represents the finger that is used for playing the fret or holding it. For example: In the chord diagram above the number 1 represents the index finger, the number 2 represents the middle finger and the number three represents the third finger.

There are different types of chords that are used while learning guitar playing. Some of the important ones are the extended chords, and the triad chords. Then there are the caged major chords, which basically consist of a root note, a major third and perfect fifth above the root, and a note. For example: If you are playing C-Major then your finger position will be as follows:

1. Hold & press E on the first string

2. Hold & press C on the second string

3. Hold & press G on the third string

4. Hold & press E on the fourth string

5. Hold & press C on the fifth string

6. The sixth string is free

These are the basics of guitar chords, which will help you to understand what chords really are and how integral it is to playing good guitar. The basic understanding of chord and chord structure will help you immensely when you move from this stage to the advanced. Guitar playing is a learning process where every new stage is just the beginning!

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