If you’re confused by the layout of the image above, hold your guitar in front of you so that the strings are facing you and the headstock is pointing up.
You’ll often see chords notated as in the chart above. The six vertical and five horizontal lines represent your guitar’s fretboard. Three or more notes together create a chord. To play a chord, you’ll need to use the scale to put together notes. These metal strips allow you to change the pitch of a string by altering the length between the string and the bridge. You’ll notice on your guitar that each fret is separated by a metal strip. These semitones are noted on the guitar by the frets. The chromatic scale is a musical scale that’s broken up into 12 pitches. Chords on the Guitarīefore you begin to truly understand chords, you need to first understand the chromatic scale. If you delve into the history of chord progression a bit you’ll find that thousands of songs, from both past and present, use the same chord progressions repeatedly. We need to first understand how chords work before we can move on to chord progressions. Once you understand the guitar’s notes, it’s time to learn chords, and then chord progressions. While most of us can’t simply pick up a guitar and start playing without instruction, the process of learning to play a song is fairly straightforward.
It’s also a great instrument to play while singing simultaneously. Many people enjoy pop music because it’s catchy and the lyrics are infectious. The guitar is an easy avenue for those wanting to play their favorite pop songs. Most commonly, however, people decide they want to play the guitar because of how prominently it’s featured in today’s top music. The guitar, as the second most popular musical instrument in the world (right behind the piano at number one), is the peoples’ choice for a myriad of reasons. Learning to play the guitar is a task that’s undertaken by thousands, if not millions of people each and every year. A Beginner's Guide to Understanding Guitar Chord Progressions
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