Beginner Guitar Chords Made Easy On YouTube

 This is the fourth of a series of articles discussing various YouTube videos relating to beginner guitar lessons which are being produced by YouTube channels such as beefcakejcc and rockongoodpeople.

This particular instructional video is produced by beefcakejcc and teaches beginner guitar chords. The video itself uses some chord charts to demonstrate finger positioning as it shows how to play beginner guitar chords. These chord charts have been reproduced for this article for your further study.

Although this is a fairly short tutorial video about guitar chords, but it goes a long way in helping new guitar players to learn guitar chords. The videos starts by telling the player that they are going to learn how to read guitar notes which make up part of a chord diagram and this is a good way to begin learning guitar chords. We are shown a blank chord diagram and it is explained that the horizontal lines on the diagram represent the frets, and that the vertical lines represent the strings. The strings are numbered on the chord diagram, with the number 1 denoting the top E string, through to the number 6 denoting the bottom E string.

The tutor moves swiftly on and brings in example chord diagram number 2, this is quite a quick lesson and it attempts to teach the player how learning guitar chords can be quick and easy. The E minor chord is shown as a chord diagram, and it is explained that the large black dots represent the actual fret board positions that need to be played. The numbers on these dots tell the player which finger needs to be used to form the chord shape on the neck of the guitar. Note that only easy guitar chords are being used to demonstrate these examples; this makes them easy to form for even the most inexperienced player.

As the third chord diagram, a slightly more complex chord, a D7 is shown, and it is explained why it is important to follow the direction of the chord diagram with regards to which finger is going to be playing which note. It is important that anybody learning beginner guitar chords learns the proper shape and fingering, as it can be very hard to lose the bad habit of forming shapes wrongly later on. The major difference with the D7 example is the fact that the 6th and 5th strings have an X above them; this means that these strings do not form part of the chord and should not be played when the chord is strummed. These can either be missed entirely or dampened.

The fourth example shows how a chord diagram can designate a position along the fretboard to play the chord shape. When learning guitar chords it is useful to remember that quite often standard shapes can form new chords simply by moving them up or down the neck of the guitar. The A add 9 chord the tutor shows us is a great example of this. The A add 9 is also a little complicated for people learning to play beginner guitar chords, as it has an open string way down the neck, something that is not often the case, a very good part of the lesson, something not often found in beginning guitar lessons. Finally the concept of bar chords is quickly introduced although not covered in depth.

This is an excellent guide to beginner guitar chords, a valuable guitar lesson and overall it is a great way to start to learn guitar chords.

For those new guitar players that are just starting out, these kinds of videos are an excellent way to start off on the road to becoming a solid musician.

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