Guitar Lesson: Do You Know These Easy Chords?

With a guitar you have many easy nice soundingThe guitar chord looks like this:
chords at your disposal. Let's play a few open0/5 2/4 1/3 0/2 0/1
guitar chords in the key of A.We will finally add an Asus chord. The guitar tab
Guitar tabnotation looks as follows:
Guitar tab notation is a way of showing how to0/5 2/4 2/3 3/2 0/1
play melodies and chords on the guitar. It usuallyYou can play the chords in the following manner:
consists of six lines representing the six strings onA E/A Asus A
the guitar and numbers that indicate the frets toYou can strum the chords with two or four
play.downstrokes on each chord. As I mentioned
In this guitar lesson we will use a form of guitarbefore this chord progression works as a
tablature that uses numbers instead of a tablatureturnaround and can be played over and over
staff. I have found that ordinary guitar tab staffagain.
notation sometimes will be displayed uncorrectlyA turnaround in the key of A minor
on article sites.We will start this turnaround with the plain and
How to read this notationeasy A minor chord. It looks like this with guitar
I will use two numbers to show how to play thetab:
notes. The first number indicate the fret and the0/5 2/4 2/3 1/2 0/1
second the string to play. An example:If you release the finger pressure a bit and slide
3/2the chord up two frets you will get the following
This tab notation tells you to play the third fretchord:
on the second string. It is the note D on your0/5 4/4 4/3 3/2 0/1
guitar. For clarification: The first string is the stringA nice sounding chord that can be named in
with the highest pitch.different ways. We can call it B minor with A as
A turnaround in the key of Abass note and an added E note. Abbreviated it will
What is a turnaround? It is a set of chords thatbe Bm/A add 11.
can be played over and over again on your guitarBy sliding the chord up one more fret and
as an intro to a song or between verses and sochanging just one note (by pressing down your
on.little finger) you will get the following guitar chord:
We will start with an ordinary A major chord that0/5 5/4 5/3 5/2 0/1
with the guitar tab notation previously explainedThis will be an A minor seven chord. The short
will look like this:notation is Am7.
0/5 2/4 2/3 2/2 0/1Played in the following order the chords will create
We will omit the sixth string to get a cleanera turnaround:
sound. Let's add an E chord. We will not use theAm Bm/A add 11 Am7 Bm/A add 11
ordinary E major och E7 chord. Instead we willThese two turnarounds are easy contributions to
use an easier chord that is called E major with Ayour guitar repertoire and can be changed and
as bass note notated E/A.developed as you like.