| The easy way to learn guitar chords is to pick out | | | | you have chord charts for a few songs that you really |
| which chords you want to learn and practice them | | | | like. This way you know which chords you need to |
| every day. Most guitar students have the constant | | | | learn, and trying the chord changes in your songs will |
| question in their minds of "when am I going to be a | | | | help you to know where you are in your progress as |
| guitarist instead of newbie?" It is natural to be looking | | | | a guitar player. You can use the notes you find in your |
| for a result, to know that the trip uphill is finally over, but | | | | chords to try to find the guitar solo in your songs, or to |
| that is not really the way it happens. If you practice a | | | | make up your own. You can start practicing bar |
| minimum of three chords every day, you get the ability | | | | chords by looking up the bar chord shapes for the |
| to play as part of a gradual process. Yes, you will find | | | | chords you have already been practicing. You will see |
| yourself playing songs and making fast chord changes | | | | how different your songs sound when you make use |
| one day but how well you are playing your chords | | | | of bar chords. |
| depends on how you practiced on all the days leading | | | | You might also be interested in learning to play, or at |
| up to your emergence as a guitar player. | | | | least get to know, the many variations there are in all |
| In practicing guitar chords there is no yesterday. You | | | | chord shapes. Any major chord can be played around |
| start off your practice session today as if you know | | | | a dozen different ways. You do not have to learn |
| nothing about guitar chords. Every day when you begin | | | | them all off by heart but you can look them up in your |
| your practice you will need to find out where you are | | | | chord charts and play them through to see how |
| with your chords. Let your fingers find where they | | | | different they all sound. |
| need to go on the guitar fretboard at their own pace. | | | | Another thing that will help you on your way as you |
| You see, when you finished up your guitar practice | | | | learn guitar chords is by finding your favorite chord. |
| yesterday your hands were warmed up. When you | | | | Mine was E minor - a two finger chord that sounded |
| start practicing today, you remember how good your | | | | great in "I'm Only Sleeping" by The Beatles. Playing that |
| chord changes were yesterday and you try to play | | | | chord helped me remember why I wanted to learn to |
| too fast. The fast chord changes WILL come but only | | | | play guitar. For some guitar players their favorite chord |
| after SLOW practice. | | | | is D minor because of its ability to evoke emotions. |
| So is there anything to make learning guitar chords | | | | Some people like their guitar chords in alternate tunings |
| easy? Yes. You can learn guitar chords alot faster if | | | | like Double Dropped D - D A D G B D. |
