A chord is when you play two or more guitar strings at once, either by pressing down on the strings behind the frets or by leaving them ‘open’, ie, un-fretted.

Use our acoustic guitar chord charts - from basic open chords to the daddy of altered tunings and many points between - to build your musical vocabulary and hone your own voice on the acoustic guitar.

Ignite your inner guitar god for just 27 cents a day with TrueFire’s July 4th sale - save 60% on online lessons Take some time to examine the chord examples on the next page. We've written out the ...

Yeah. “Hey Ya” is made up of just four chords–all of them the sort of thing a novice could figure out how to play more or less immediately–so his story checks out, for the most part.

The way any professional musician would approach the song is the same: Put a capo on the first fret , and your basic 1,4,5,6m, 2m, 5 and 57 chord become simple, open key of G voicings where one or ...

It's like Guitar Hero for real First under the microscope is Chord Viewer, which is activated by clicking the appropriately-marked third tab in the middle section of the user interface.

If you've recently starting playing guitar you’ve probably already tried some of the most common open chords (so called because they include un-fretted or ‘open’ strings), such as C, A and Em.