How to Read Guitar Chord Diagrams (aka TABS) Video

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How to Read Guitar Chord Diagrams (aka TABS)

This is an intro to Chord reading. The video link to the Chords is below this video (as a response) and in the video description Hey, what is up guys, Walt here and Sam. We will be showing you guys all seven chords, A B C D E F and G. Now there is a lot more chords. All the cool stuff that I wanted to show you are here on the first breath or in the first position. Things like your C chord or D G. Okay, by the way this two were A minor and D minor, going back to C. So let me just get to it. Here is how I am going to write everything down. Here are your six strings, E A D G B and E. If you want me to show you how to read that, it is quite easy. Here is your guitar. I wrote it here floor and then ceiling. What that means is that this string here is the string that is closest towards the ceiling, which is this guy. Because the ceilings are top here and the floor is down here, which means that this string is the key, that is closest towards the floor. So this is how you would typically read a chord chart. What a lot of people say is that well, it is simple because everything is upside down. It seems that way at first but after a week or two weeks of learning this method, it is ten times easier than the other way and then once you get it, you know for the rest of you life. So, an easy way just as you are playing, just think of it as if the guitar were flipped upside down. Here is the floor string. Here is the ceiling string and so there you have it. So now, let us just work on the first chord, which is A. Let me just explain the fingers on the chord diagrams really quick. You see those diagrams that I just had up, it said four, three, two and all this other stuff. All that means is which finger that you are suppose to play and when you see a T, it means your thumb. When you see a one, it means your pointer finger, two is your middle finger, three is your ring finger right here and four is your pinky. So that is if you see a chord that says four, three, two, all you do is you do four which is your pinky, three, two and then if you wanted one, this would be your one. Here is how you read the chord chart. This is the nut. Let me write this all down N U T. Here are the strings where these black lines are going across. Here is the floor string, there is the ceiling string, here is the nut, which is this part right here, this white fret part. The red things that I just made here, those are the frets. So if you can see it, see this bed of lines right here, those are the frets. Here you have the nut, here are the frets, and here are the strings here. Here is the head stock, here is your tuning pegs, see up here right here. And that is pretty much everything. Here is your sound whole right here that is what gives you the amplification and here is the bridge. But the bridge is all if I were to continue this, all the way down, down 20 frets down because a guitar is about 20 frets, there would be your bridge right there if I were to continue. After that, let us just get started and jump right into the chords. To jump directly into the chords, click below. The video link to the Chords Video is also in the video description.

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This is an intro to Chord reading.
The video link to the Chords is below this video (as a response) and in the video description

Hey, what is up guys, Walt here and Sam. We will be showing you guys all seven chords, A B C D E F and G. Now there is a lot more chords. All the cool stuff that I wanted to show you are here on the first breath or in the first position. Things like your C chord or D G.

Okay, by the way this two were A minor and D minor, going back to C. So let me just get to it. Here is how I am going to write everything down. Here are your six strings, E A D G B and E. If you want me to show you how to read that, it is quite easy. Here is your guitar. I wrote it here floor and then ceiling. What that means is that this string here is the string that is closest towards the ceiling, which is this guy. Because the ceilings are top here and the floor is down here, which means that this string is the key, that is closest towards the floor. So this is how you would typically read a chord chart. What a lot of people say is that well, it is simple because everything is upside down. It seems that way at first but after a week or two weeks of learning this method, it is ten times easier than the other way and then once you get it, you know for the rest of you life.

So, an easy way just as you are playing, just think of it as if the guitar were flipped upside down. Here is the floor string. Here is the ceiling string and so there you have it. So now, let us just work on the first chord, which is A. Let me just explain the fingers on the chord diagrams really quick. You see those diagrams that I just had up, it said four, three, two and all this other stuff. All that means is which finger that you are suppose to play and when you see a T, it means your thumb. When you see a one, it means your pointer finger, two is your middle finger, three is your ring finger right here and four is your pinky. So that is if you see a chord that says four, three, two, all you do is you do four which is your pinky, three, two and then if you wanted one, this would be your one.

Here is how you read the chord chart. This is the nut. Let me write this all down N U T. Here are the strings where these black lines are going across. Here is the floor string, there is the ceiling string, here is the nut, which is this part right here, this white fret part. The red things that I just made here, those are the frets. So if you can see it, see this bed of lines right here, those are the frets. Here you have the nut, here are the frets, and here are the strings here. Here is the head stock, here is your tuning pegs, see up here right here. And that is pretty much everything. Here is your sound whole right here that is what gives you the amplification and here is the bridge. But the bridge is all if I were to continue this, all the way down, down 20 frets down because a guitar is about 20 frets, there would be your bridge right there if I were to continue. After that, let us just get started and jump right into the chords. To jump directly into the chords, click below. The video link to the Chords Video is also in the video description.

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