Welcome to GuitarLessons.com. In this lesson, I’m going to teach you how to record diagrams.
Now, if you ever seen a piece of sheet music or something that you’re learning a song from, probably you’re going to see a couple of diagrams throughout the music or either at the very beginning or the very ending to indicate a specific shapes that you’re going to be using in that song.
So for example, if we have a G chord, you’re going to see a diagram that has six vertical lines that represents the string in the guitar. On those lines, you’re going to see, for instance, on the third fret, you would have a black dot on your sixth string, on the fifth string, you would have a black dot on your second fret, and finally, on your high E string, you’re going to have a black dot on your third fret, and that would give you your G chord.
This is important because certain songs use particular voicings or particular chord shapes for a very particular sound that you want for that song. So let’s say, you didn’t want an open G chord like we just played, say the song called for a G bar chord, that would be indicated by the chord diagram. You would probably see on the third fret that you should out your finger across all six strings, usually, that’s indicated by a long black line or kind of arc and then you would see a black dot on the fifth fret of your fifth string, black dot on the fifth fret of your fourth string, and your third string would have a black dot on the fourth fret, so that would indicate this shape for a bar chord.
So let’s look at three more examples to make sure you understand how to interpret guitar chord diagrams. Let’s try a CM7 chord. If you saw a black on the third fret of your fifth string, and another black dot on the second fret of your fourth string, you would play a CM7 chord. So let’s take a look at Am7 chord. If you’re going to look at a chord diagram of an A minor 7th chord, you would probably see a black dot on your fourth string on the second fret and another black dot on your second string on the first fret, so it would give you a good shape for an Am7 chord.
Finally, let’s look at just the regular D major chord and if you are looking at a chord diagram of that, you would see a black dot on third string on the second fret, another black dot on your second string third fret, and finally you’d see another black dot, your last one on your high E string on the second fret. One more thing that I should mention to you, if you see X’s down below the note on the diagram, that’s just an indication that you don’t need to play those strings in that chord shape or maybe even mute those strings in that chord shape or maybe even mute those strings.
So, go out and fins some music of some songs that you like to play and look at the chord diagrams and start working on them right away.
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