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Beginner's Guide to Understanding Chords

With Robert Mussatti, Mike Edwin, Chris Feener and 1 more
Beginner-IntermediateAny styleChords 6 steps21 lessons35m

We all learn chords when first learning to play guitar, and in this path you'll get a solid grasp on what chords are and how to play them effectively so you'll be strumming away in no time!

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  1. 1 Tutorial · 3 lessons · 9m What are Chords? - The Harmonized Major Scale Mike Edwin Chords! A chord is a series of notes played together. There are hundreds even thousands of chords available to play on the guitar. Once you begin to understand the essentials of building chords, and...
  2. 2 Tutorial · 3 lessons · 7m Bar Chords Chris Feener Hey guitar enthusiasts! In this tutorial, we're tackling bar chords. We'll examine the best approach to forming a clean-sounding bar chord, and the steps for constructing a ton of cool chords (covering all...
  3. 3 Lesson · 4m Barre Chords Rick Graham Barre chords, what exactly are they? Barre chords are chords which enable us to take all of the open chords that we have learned, open chords being the basic chords which incorporate the use of open strings...
  4. 4 Lesson · 2m Rock Chords - The Power Chord Mike Edwin Welcome Aboard! Right now we will take a look at 'Power Chords' At the beginning of this video you will see a short demonstration of Power Chords in action. More often than not you will hear these chords used...
  5. 5 Tutorial · 4 lessons · 9m Know Your Major Scales Mike Edwin How well do you know your Major scale? Can you play it all over the fretboard? In every key? Do you know where all the voicings of each particular major chord are? Do you know their inversions? Substitutions?...
  6. 6 Tutorial · 9 lessons · 5m Expanding Your Chord Knowledge Robert Mussatti Hello, I now bring you part 2 of this tutorial. To start, we will be working with Augmented, Diminished, Sus4, and Sus2 chords. For simplistic reasons, we will be building these (once again) in the key of C...

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