Learn to Play Guitar Chords

You want to play guitar? Learn to play guitar chords. Buy yourself a guitar instruction book. One I'd recommend is called Basic Blues for Guitar: Book/CD Pack by Fred Sokolow. This book uses tablature for instruction. Tablature is a way to learn without having to read the notes. You'll still need to know about time signature. Don't worry, time signature is easy to learn.

When you learn some simple guitar chords such as E7, A7, and B7 you can start playing songs. All you need to do is strum the rhythm while changing chords as you go.

As you learn to play guitar chords keep this in mind. Certain chords go together, they have relationships. Such as the three guitar chords I mentioned earlier. You have the tonic, dominant and subdominant chords (one, five and four cords).

If a tune is in the key of E, the Circle of Fifths tells you that B (the fifth chord/ dominant) and A (the fourth chord/ sub-dominant) will be the other two chords in a tune (E being the one chord/ tonic, because the key is in E).

The circle of fifths link just above will take you to Wikipedia were you can get a comprehensive view of the circle of fifths.

People who want to play guitar recreationally make up the majority of people who want to learn guitar. They need a method of instruction that is not expensive and is convenient. That's one reason online guitar lessons are growing more popular today.

In most cases, when you buy guitar lessons online you will get your money back if they're not working out. Look into the guarantee before you buy.

Having a private guitar instructor can become very expensive, learning guitar by paying for each and every lesson will add up fast. What I would consider a drawback is working around your teacher's schedule. Also, if there is a lesson that you didn't pick up on or totally understand, it will cost you to redo or extend that lesson.

Online video lessons allow you to learn to play guitar on your own schedule. To make a long story short, you pay for a series of lessons at a less expensive price than you will with a private instructor. Back tracts are usually included as a bonus when buying online guitar lessons, which gives you background music to play with. It's as if you have a band playing with you.

The best benefit of online guitar lessons is that you can play them over and over again until you really understand what you're supposed to learn from the lesson. As soon as you sign up for a course, you can begin your guitar lessons.

If you are a total beginner when it comes to playing guitar, there are places online where you can get free lessons. You can learn guitar in the comfort of your own home, another benefit of online guitar lessons.

==>Free Guitar Lessons<==

One drawback I should mention about buying online guitar lessons is that there are so many to choose from! How do you know which one is right for you? Reading reviews of these online guitar lesson sites will help in your decision.

Jamorama is one of the more popular downloadable sites for guitar lessons. There are many positive reviews on the Internet about Jamorama, you probably have seen one or two.

An other good site for online guitar lessons is Next Level Guitar, a couple of their videos are on this lens.

I'm going to make an attempt to explain to you the basic concept on how to read guitar tabs. It might seem complex but learning to read tabs is actually simple. You should find yourself reading guitar tabs in no time.

Many guitarists are unique because of the fact they've taught themselves to play. Others have taken a small number of lessons via a friend, guitar teacher or online lessons. Chances are these guitarists learned without the knowledge of reading music, unless they had formal training as a kid in school.

Learning to read music takes a lot of work, without any immediate benefit. These kind of skills a self-taught musician tends to avoid, hence tablature.

In guitar tablature, there are six lines shown on the staff. These lines represent the six strings of a guitar. From the top is the high E (1st) string, then moving down we have the B, G, D, A and the low E (6th) string. The number on each of these lines will tell you where to fret each string. For example: The number 3 on the B (2nd) string tells us to fret the third fret on string B, giving us the D note.

==>Understanding the Tab Staff<==

Without the aid of graphic design it is difficult to give a clear picture of what I'm talking about. So just follow this link to where you'll get a more comprehensive lesson on how to read guitar tabs.

==>How to Read Guitar Tabs<==

Bar chords are used when playing blues, jazz, country western, rhythm & blues also rock & roll.

Bar chords are movable chord configurations, which can be variably positioned up and down the fret board to accommodate different tonic centers.

This is usually done by putting the index finger across all six strings to replace the nut that accepts the strings at the end of the fret board. The other three fingers are used to make the chord immediately above the bar.

Because the E chord takes its name from the low E string played open, the E chord bar series has a sixth string root base. This means that the tonic center of the movable bar chord series will take its name from the note played by the index finger on the low E string. You should learn the letter name and notes for every note on the low E string- up, down and inside out.

If you bar the E chord to the first fret, you have an F chord. Barred to the fifth fret, you have an A chord and so on.

The A bar series works on the same principle as the E bar chords. The difference being in the A bar series, the root of the chord is found on the fifth string (A).

The root of each of these chords are the notes on the 5th & 6th string. By studying a finger board diagram, you can use each chord in many places.

The E bar chord series and A bar chord series are most commonly used because of their simple, compact design and optimal open positions.