Here follows a list of basic guitar chords that every guitarist needs to know. To make it easy for you to see the guitar chord fingering, I put the guitar chord pictures next to the charts. Finger the chords with the top of your fingers and look out you don't touch adjacent strings.
A little bit about guitar chord names:
To find out what the difference is between major, minor and dominant you should read the guitar music theory tutorial. Here's the list of basic guitar chords:
After you played these basic guitar chords some times I suggest you do the following:
A little bit about guitar chord names:
- chords are named according to letters going from A to G
- an 'm' after a letter means that the chord is a minor chord
- a '7' after the letter means that the chord is a dominant chord
- a letter without 'm' or '7' means that the chord is a major chord
To find out what the difference is between major, minor and dominant you should read the guitar music theory tutorial. Here's the list of basic guitar chords:
The F chord is a bit of a special case: the top 2 notes are fretted with one finger (the index finger).
This is one of the hardest chords to play for the beginner, but you'll soon get the hang of it (if you practice enough).
After you played these basic guitar chords some times I suggest you do the following: - Print out this free printable guitar chord chart. That page also explains the difficulties you might encounter and what to do with your right hand.
- Go to the next page and start practicing some guitar songs that only make use of the beginner guitar chords learned on this page.
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