How to Read Guitar Chords
OK, let’s take a look at chords today. I am not going to explain you what those letters C, D etc. mean, because – well, if you made it to YourChords.com website, I’m pretty sure that you already know. Am I a Sherlock or what? 🙂 When it comes to chords, I think I can really help you with giving you a free (you are getting used to that, aren’t you, haha?) list of pretty much all the chord variations you can think of. You can find it here – chord variations diagram. Or if you feel like printing it, I have prepared a PDF version for you as well – chord variations diagram PDF. Another thing we should mention are the barre chords because they usually cause quite a lot of problems to beginners. Fretting a barre chord is actually the same as retuning the guitar a number of half-steps higher, playing the original open chord – it’s actually very similar to the use of a capodaster. You use your index finger to cover all of the strings at a certain fret and then you hold a specific chord with the
