Learn Guitar Chords!
Guitar Chord Lessons

Want to learn guitar chords the simple way? Want to learn, not just chord fingerings, but also how chords really work on the guitar?

These guitar chord lessons will take you right from the basics through to more advanced chord playing theory. Just follow the path to guitar chord confidence, but don't rush yourself. Those who take their time end up understanding how chords work more easily than those who want to learn it all yesterday.

With a mix of clear, "over the shoulder" and close-up photos, animated diagrams, jam tracks and audio references, you'll have all the help you need to discover the many different types of guitar chord. You'll then be ready to jam freely with a band or over a backing drummer, play many of your favourite songs and, best of all, write your own songs.

Enjoy!

Guitar Chord Basics
The absolute basics of fingering guitar chords on the fretboard. Some essential tips to ensure your chord playing is clean and clear. Take this lesson before you move on to learn guitar chords and their fingerings.

Open Position Guitar Chords
The best place to begin your chord learning journey. 4-part course that takes you through the main open position chords and their interesting variations. Some of the most loved music out there exclusively uses the chords in this course and you'll probably use them for your entire guitar playing life, simply because they sound good!

Barre/Movable Guitar Chords
This is where you move your chord playing away from the first few frets of the guitar to completely dominating the fretboard. Get introduced to how chord voicings appear across the entire guitar neck, and how to open up your chord playing options when improvising or writing your own music.

Sub lesson: Cutting Down Chord Shapes

Floating Guitar Chords
This series of lessons expands on the open chord shapes from earlier, moving them up the fretboard and using open strings to create unique sounding chords. Some great ideas to be found here, so take a look and expand your chord playing options even further.

Slash Chords
This lesson introduces you to the world of chord inversions, where the bass note of a chord is not necessarily the root note. Also, we look at some simple walking bass lines to compliment our chord progressions.

Guitar Chord Theory
This course is for those guitarists who want to understand how chords are constructed and where they "come from". Really adds a new perspective to learning chords on the guitar, showing you how to effectively build your own chords from scratch, using the major scale as your foundation.

Download Your Own Drummer!

Practicing guitar chords on your own is fine, but playing with a drummer really helps to develop your sense of rhythm and timing, especially when changing between chords. It also allows you to put your playing into context. This is no ordinary "drum machine"...

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