Hi, welcome back to the Beginner Guitar Lessons blog. This is the last part of the guitar chord progression topic. In the first part you have learned the most common chords found in the major songs, which we known as I (root), IV and V chords. If you know these chords then you can play simple songs as well as bluegrass songs and rock and roll songs because they mostly use this chord progression. Read the rest of this entry »
Guitar Chord Progression – Adding Minor Chords
By TJ on Saturday, April 25th, 2009 | Comments Off
Hello, this is TJ again from the Beginner Guitar Lessons blog. A few days ago we have learned about the basic guitar chord progression. In that post I suggested you to learn as many songs as possible, finding chords of the songs you know and see whether you can determine the chord progression. Some of you maybe start questioning why we need to learn the chord progression if we can download the guitar cheat book easily. To answer your question here is my explanation: Read the rest of this entry »
Guitar Chord Progression
By TJ on Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009 | Comments Off
Hello, thank you for joining the Beginner Guitar Lessons blog. Today we will learn how to choose the ‘right’ chords for a simple major song and prevent the ‘wrong’ ones. Well, actually there are no right or wrong chords but if you use them wrongly then your guitar playing will sound bad. Read the rest of this entry »
Minor Chords
By TJ on Friday, March 27th, 2009 | Comments Off
Hi everybody, nice to see you again in this Beginner Guitar Lessons blog. Today we will learn about minor chords. Together with the major chords and the dominant 7th chords, the minor chords are commonly used almost in any kind of music, and they give different ‘feel’ to the songs. While major chords give a ‘normal’ or ‘happy’ feels, minor chords tends to sound ‘darker’, ‘somber’ or even ‘serious’. Read the rest of this entry »