If you are familiar/comfortable with the major/minor chords then I would recommend moving on to inversions. I'm sure the chords that you know are mostly in root position; if you are playing a B Major chord, the B note is the first note of your chord (B - D# - F#). Try playing your chords with the 3rd or 5th as the first note.IE (D# - F# - B) or (F# - B - D#) A good example of this can be found here: jamplay.com/guitar-chords/b-major-guitar... - Learn this for all the chords.
A good book that will teach you how to learn all these chords is Mel Bay book called "Jazz Guitar Method Volume two by Ronny Lee. " It will not only teach you the inversion for major/minor but 6th, major/minor 7th, dim and so on. Another thing you should work on is your major/minor scales.
Learn how to play them from any part of the fretboard. Record some of your chord progressions you know and start making up solos over them.It will be awkward at first but will get easier with practice. Almost forgot.
Check out the chord progression primer at the guitar suite. I great resource for learning the chords within a particular key.
By all means continue to work on your technique (I agree that recording yourself is a great help here), but remember that technique is a means to an end, not an end in itself. Try to become a more versatile musician. If you don't sing, try it.
If you don't play with other musicians, try that. If there is a local open mic, try playing it. Learn songs especially in genres that you wouldn't normally play,.
If you are not comfortable improvising, put on a CD and improvise a guitar part along with it.
Learn the minor pentatonic scale in all positions and you'll rock on forever...that's the blues sale and it's the key to wonderland.
M sure you know, strumming is just when you brush your pick over the strings of a stringed instrument to make a sound). Dictionary.com calls a chord? A combination of three or more pitches sounded simultaneously.? Now that you know what chords are, it?
S time to learn the chords, but first, you must learn how to read chord charts.2. How to read chord chartsIn this lesson, I? M gonna make my own chord charts so I can tell you exactly how you should play them (at least how I feel you should play them).
E|-|---|---|---|---|---|In case your not aware, the letters to the left of the chart are the note names of the strings. The little e is the highest string (skinniest) and the big E is the lowest string (the thickest). And then all the letters in between are the strings in between.
Just think of it as reading tabs just slightly altered. E|x|---|---|---|---|---|The C7 above the chart is the name of the chord. The 1, 2, 3, and 4 on the chord chart tells you what finger to put on the certain string.
The number 1 is your index finger, 2 is your middle finger, 3 is your ring finger, and 4 is your pinky. The? O?
In the 0 fret column means the string is played open, or you don? T put a finger on the string but you play it anyway. The?
X? In the 0 fret column means you don? T put a finger down on that string but you don?
T play that string either. You can either just not pick it or mute it by partially laying a finger down on the string. You can either lightly place a finger on the muted string with a finger that is already pushing down another string (in this case it would be the 3rd finger on the A string) or place your thumb barely on the muted string by bringing it over the neck and lightly touching the string.3.
Basic open chordsThere are 8? Basic? Open chords.
I? M sure you know, but there are more than 8, but 8 of them are the major and minor chords, and we? Ll call the major and minor chords the?
Basic? Ones. Alrighty then, it?
S time to learn the basic open chords (note: not all of these chords are how I play them, but it? S how you should play them in the most economical way). E|-|---|---|-2-|---|---|Ok, these are the major open chords.
If a chord doesn? T have anything after it? S main letter (like in the C chord, it is just C, not Cm or Cm7 or Cadd9 or something like that) then it?
S a major chord. Ok, time to learn the minor open chords. Why is there an?
M? After every chord name? Well, that signifies that the chord is a minor chord.
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