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This article will show you how to make the very best use of free guitar chord charts that you can get online. As the internet changes, websites go down and new ones arise, so I won't risk this resource going out of date by discussing where to find your free guitar chord charts, just how to use them to jump start your guitar playing.

You can easily get together a good collection of chord charts and lyrics to your favorite songs to assist you learn to play the guitar. If you feel that you ought to be learning a lot of musical theory and how to read musical notation, but somehow feel it is just not you, then that is alright - start with what you feel most enthusiastic about. As soon as you have began to learn using guitar chord charts you've purchased or downloaded for free, you may see as you go along that you will need to know a little bit about musical theory to see how chords and scales fit together. If, however, you are comfortable learning chords to your favorite songs, then keep at it.

Why don't we begin with the basic baby steps and work up to some truly useful knowledge regarding guitar chords and how the dots on the charts relate to musical sounds. You know the frets on your guitar's neck somehow demonstrate where the notes are, so let's get a bit more technical. You will see when you make use of scale charts to learn to play guitar tunes that in a certain position on the fret board, you will sometimes need to move up or down one fret or two frets. If you play the note at the first fret, after which move up to the second fret, you've moved up a semitone. If you have moved up two frets, it is known as a tone. The distance between the notes E and F or B and C is a tone. The distance between the notes C and D is a tone. So as you learn songs in various keys, you will begin to see that what you are playing when you play scales is various patterns of tones or semi tones on the guitar neck.

If you've watched guitarists play, you'll have noticed that often they place their index finger across all six strings. This is known as a barre. When you start to learn songs, you'll be using chords played in the First position on the fret board. These are mostly open chords, that is chords which do not make use of the barre. You can try to play barre chords at any time, but it's a little ambitious to expect to be able to use them until after your hands have done some practice with open chords.

When you're learning chords to go with songs, you will most likely use your chord charts demonstrating to you chords that use all the guitar's strings. However if you want to get into playing solos, start with the three note chords known as triads. The three notes in a triad are the basic notes of your chord, thus by learning triads, you'll start to see how the guitar chords are structured. Also you can move your triads up and down the fret board to make new chords.

Here's an example: The chord of A Major is comprised of the notes A C# and E shown in tab form as:

E----------------------------------------- B--------------2-------------------------- G--------------2-------------------------- D--------------2-------------------------- A----------------------------------------- E-----------------------------------------

Move that shape one semitone (one fret) up the neck and you get A# or Bb.

E----------------------------------------- B--------------3-------------------------- G--------------3-------------------------- D--------------3-------------------------- A----------------------------------------- E-----------------------------------------

One fret higher is B Major.

E----------------------------------------- B--------------4-------------------------- G--------------4-------------------------- D--------------4-------------------------- A----------------------------------------- E-----------------------------------------

This shape played anywhere on the neck will present you with a major chord. The fret it's played at tells you the key it is in.

Listed here are the notes for the triads of the basic chords: C Major - C E G D Major - D F# A E Major - B E G# F Major - C F A G Major - G B D A Major - A C# E B Major - B D# F#

Now the minor chords: C Minor - C Eb G D Minor - D F A E Minor - B E G F Minor - C F Ab G Minor - G Bb D A Minor - A C E B Minor - B D F# Naturally, there will be some points you need to make a bit clearer, so you will find more descriptions and illustrations available for free on the internet.