How to Play Guitar Chords

Learn about strings. The best way is to start getting familiar with the strings on your guitar and how they relate to your fingers. To make it easier, we’ll number both. The strings on the guitar will be numbered as follows:

• Vertically, the strings are numbered 1 to 6, from the highest to the lowest.
• Horizontally, you will number based on the position of the frets.
• Note, the instruction “put your first finger on the 3rd fret” means that you need to place your finger between the 2nd and 3rd frets.
  Use this mnemonic to memorize the note of each string, from low to high:
  Noodles, La, Re, Sp, Si, Mi (in Western notation it is EA D G B E ). ^[1]

Number your fingers. Take a look at your left hand, and imagine that numbers are stamped on them. Your index finger will have the number 1, the middle finger the number 2, the ring finger the number 3, and the pinky finger the number 4. We’ll call the thumb “T,” but you won’t be using it for proper play. sound in this article.

Learn about C chords. The first chord we will learn about is the C chord – one of the basic chords in music. Before we begin, let’s find out what it means. A complete chord, whether played on a piano, guitar, or sung by a well-trained vocalist, is just a combination of three or more notes. (Two notes are called “double notes,” and although quite useful in music, they are not chords.) Chords can also include more than three notes, but we won’t cover it. in this article. On the guitar, the C chord would look like this:

• The lowest note is the 3rd fret of the A string: the C note.
• The next note is played on the 2nd fret of the D string: the E note.
• Be careful not to place your finger on the G string. We will “blank” this string when playing the C chord.
• The highest note played on the 1st fret of the B string: the C note.
• The highest and lowest strings on the guitar will not be used for the basic C chord.

Try plucking these notes. Strum each note of the chord in turn, from low to high, note by note. Take it slow and careful: press down firmly on the frets, and pluck the strings. Allow the string to vibrate as long as you want, then move on to the next note:

• Press the 3rd finger on the 3rd fret of the A string, as described above, pluck the string, and allow it to vibrate until it stops. You just played the note C.
• Press the 2nd finger on the 2nd fret of the D string, then pluck and vibrate the string to play the note E.
• Get some rest! Play the empty G string.
• Press the 1st finger on the 1st fret of the B string, and allow the C note to ring out loud!
• Strum every note, one by one, several times. When you’re ready, quickly glide the plectrum or your fingers through the strings in the middle. You just played the C chord!
• Your hand will be a little sore the first few times, but when your hand starts to get calluses, the pain will go away.