Learn Exotic Guitar Chords – Suspended Chords, Diminished Chords and Augmented Chords
Exotic chords refer to 3 different chord shapes, which differ from the regular major, minor and 7th guitar chords you have already learned. The 3 exotic guitar chords you will learn in this section are called: Suspended Chords Augmented Chords Diminished Chords Exotic guitar chords are different from the regular major and minor chords because they have a certain amount of disharmony in their sound. This disharmony can be used in guitar chord progressions to...
Read More...Learn the Basics of Guitar Chord Progressions
Guitar chord progressions don't just happen. There is a method and science behind the guitar chords used in your favorite songs. If you have learned to play a few songs on your guitar, you probably think that the original artist simply picked a handful of chords out of thin air, and put them together to form a song. This is not the case. There are actually a finite number of possible guitar chord progressions that can be played, and almost every guitar chord progression...
Read More...Learn Guitar Chords
The easiest three chords to start off with when you’re learning guitar are A, D and E. They were the first 3 chords I learned and within a week I was playing along to Bob Dylan and The Stones - and you can do the same. A,D and E are the 3 main chords in the key of A. They can be learned quickly They are great for building the strength in your fingers The chord changes aren’t that difficult Best of all, once you get them sorted you can play 1000’s of...
Read More...Learn Diminished Guitar Chords
Diminished guitar chords are one of those oddities than can a new dimension to your guitar playing with very little effort. The strange feel they add to a song can make your playing sound weird and almost trippy, a la the Beatles in during their psychedelic phase in 1968. Diminished chords are ‘odd' in every sense of the word. For starters there are only 3 of them. Have a look at the diagram below. This is C dim (i.e. C diminished). It is also D# dim, A dim and F#...
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