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Here we'll go through what chord progressions are, and how to play them. We won't focus on theoretical side of chord progression from certain keys this time. Our main goal here is to make them as interesting to you as they can be, and that's a bit harder to achieve by getting you overwhelmed by tons of music theory lessons. We'll get to that later, and then it will make a lot more sense to you. Also, we have to get you moving with changing the chords easily. It helps a lot if you deal with something melodic and familiar to you. I suggest you to make a list of your favourite 20 songs and find chord charts for them and try to nail them. Either that or experiment with what you've got so far by ear. Or maybe even both!

This is continuation of article explaining how to get to using complex chord through mere practice. In past article, I explained how I look at chord progressions and melody lines. Now we're going a bit deep in that subject.

In this article I'll explain how to execute basic barre chords, what barre chords are, how to find them, and how to get on top of them.

First, let's see what barre chords are.

When learning how to play guitar, I bet the first thing you'll run into is learning how to play basic open chords. Altough it's best to have someone sitting next to you and explaining you how to overcome your first chords, I'm sure you can do that yourself (I managed to do that!).

These three issues will probably bug you the most;

Fingering of chords

 - Clarity of notes

 - Memorizing chords

This article explains how I began to use more complex and harmonious chords, instead of simple major and minor ones. Actually, when I first started doing this, I had no thought on music theory behind most of those chords, nor their names (though, through time I learned them). I only focused on how they sound, and what tones fit in each chord. I easily got it into my ears, which changes I can make on chords, for them to sound more exotic while not changing their function or nature.

In this article we're go through some chords that are even simpler and easier to execute than basic open chords, but are in a way extracted from them, and can in most cases be played instead of them. The reasons why we'll go through these chords in very beginning is because they can make your playing be much more interesting and exciting, without requiring some special extra effort to perform them.

 

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