As a guitarist you’ll spend 85% of your time playing chords. And you probably have a few chords under your fingers already. G, C, D anyone?
What you and I will accomplish with this article is helping you understand 3 things about chords.
Step 1 will be learning how they’re constructed.
Step 2, how they’re placed on the fretboard.
Step 3, some basic chord relationships.
To follow this article on beginning chord theory for guitarists, you’ll need to know how to find notes on your guitar fretboard. If you haven’t yet, be sure to read these two articles first:
Guitar Notes For Beginners – This teaches you all the open position notes.
Easy Guitar Fretboard Reading Tricks – How to read all the rest of the notes on the fretboard.
And be sure to read all the way to the end for a cool bonus item…
And away we go….