Learning to play guitar can involve a lot of memorization – chords, scales, arpeggios, you name it. [MushfiqM] has made the process a bit easier with his Digital Chord Chart. Just about every… ...

Created by one MushfiqM, the “Digital Chord Chart” could be programmed to play almost any song using TAB files that include chords and stylized note representations.

When you use a scale, say, C major, you are playing ‘in the key of C’. The word ‘diatonic’ simply means ‘within a key’, so a diatonic chord progression is a set of chords made up of notes from within ...

So I-IV-V is so important because this is the ultimate way to maximize the ‘major-ness’ of a chord progression. In that it is the only way within a key to write a 3 chord progression ...

If we place them on the stave in this arrangement, the note C is at the bottom. As this note is the keynote of our chord, and at the bottom of the chord, we call this a root position triad.

Known as a I-IV-V (one-four-five’) progression, or ‘three-chord trick’, the chords are built on the first, fourth and fifth notes of the major scale. Learn the scales to find out the chords.