Your first guitar basic chords.

Your first guitar basic chords.
A hard task for begginers.
by Bill Aniston

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When you are a novice guitarist you may have the problem of learning chords. Maybe you don't know even where to put your fingers, and worst you don't know how to make progressions (changing from one chord to other ). This article will help you to understand the basics on guitar chords.

Well, as you know learning guitar requires a lot of practicing and discipline (like everything in life). Learning to play the guitar means that you are learning sequences of small movements of your body, arms, hands and fingers. It's a long learning process we are never really finished with.

So, everytime we learn something new on the guitar, it means that we have to train ourselves to learn that specific movement on our hands. These set of small and exact movements must be executed as relaxed as you can.

Holding the chords with your left hand is a new skil for that your body needs to learn, since you will be using muscles that you normally don't use. So it will take some practicing time to get a smooth and relaxed position, so you can't experience any discomfort.

Fortunately, this adaptation is a job that does come to an end. As you learn more songs, chords, scales you will feel that you are getting them easily and smoohthly than before.

So the task at hand is to learn a basic group of chords. This is your toolbox you begin your guitar playing with. Each chord is identified by a letter. If the letter is followed by the word, minor, it's a minor chord. If it is just the letter alone, it's a major chord.

Major chords contain the Root note, a major third above the Root plus a fifth above the Root. Minor chords, which have a more "sad" sound, are the same except that they contain a minor third instead of a major third.

A basic rule of thumb for understanding major and minor chords is for a major chord play the (1) (3) and (5) of the major scale, and for a minor chord play the (1) (3) and (5) of the minor scale.

A handy thing to know once you start playing barre chords is that if you learn the major chord shape, you only need to lift one left-hand finger to play the minor chord.

The basic chords come from the keys of A G C and D. The chords themselves can be played at all positions on the fret board, but beginners start with open chords at the first position. This means that at least one note is played on an open string.

We group the basic keys into families: The A family contains the chords A, D and E. The D family contains the chords D, E minor, G and A. The G family contains the chords G, A minor, C, D and E minor. The C family contains the chords C, D minor, E minor, F and G.

Please, don't make to much effort while you are practicing guitar, specially with barre chords or you will be hurting yourself. When you feel that you are putting too much tension or you are feeling some kind of pain, please hold on, relax, and try it one more time trying to find out why are you feeling that pain and how you can relief it.

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