Reading Chord Charts

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来自 Berklee College of Music 的课程

Guitar for Beginners

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Berklee College of Music

Guitar for Beginners

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Grasp the essentials needed to begin playing acoustic or electric guitar. You'll learn an easy approach to get you playing quickly, through a combination of exploring the instrument, performance technique, and basic music theory. For students who have long thought about picking up the acoustic or electric guitar, this course will provide an easy-access foundation that will get you playing. When first learning guitar, it is important to have the material presented in stages, in an enjoyable way that allows you to grasp the basics of the instrument and music. The course begins simply with the parts of the guitar, the names of the strings, tuning, and technique—whether finger-style or pick. It then explores the basics of music theory with such topics as scales, triads, power chords, and fingering and shapes. At the end of this course, students will understand the structure, parts, and accessories of the instrument, in addition to an understanding of its basic maintenance. Electric guitar players will learn the operation of their instrument along with basic options for amplification, effect pedals, and sounds. Students will also learn to develop correct technique and apply theory concepts to their playing. They will have the foundational knowledge necessary to pursue most intermediate guitar courses.

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Chords: Building Easy Triads and Power Cords

In this lesson, you will use all of the skills you’ve gained from the previous lessons to build the foundation of harmony. You will play certain scale notes at the same time to create chords. Let's look at why chords sound like they do, how to build them, how to easily play chords in open position, and how to play chords that you can move all around the neck.

Barre Chords11:32

Power Chords3:46

Reading Chord Charts5:44

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Thaddeus Hogarth
Associate Professor
Guitar

Now, we're going to talk about reading a simple chord chard.

Now, don't panic,

of course, it would be a lot easier to just write the chords that you needed for

any given song that you are about to play on, on a plain piece of paper.

In fact, what actually happens is chord charts are often written

on the same kind of paper that you would write traditional music notation.

And the reason for that is really simple.

Because besides knowing what chord you want to play, you have to know where that

chord occurs in time and how long you need to hold that chord.

So let's take a look at a simple chart, it's a simplified version of a song I

wrote called Mothers, Sisters, and Daughters.

One of the first things you should make a note of is what's called the time

signature.

Now in this case, at the beginning of the piece of music we have 4,4.

This is called the time signature.

The most important thing for you to remember is that

the top number means that there are four beats in each measure.

Each of those beats is represented with the slash.

In this case, we have a G, for two slashes and an Amin for two slashes.

And that means that the G gets beats one and

two and the Amin gets beats three and four.

So would sound something like this, one

[MUSIC],

Two

[MUSIC]

Three, four. If we look at the next measure,

the D minor also gets two beats and the C major gets two beats.

It would sound like this.

[MUSIC]

One, two, three, four.

[MUSIC]

Now we are going to try and play the whole chart using this method of counting.

It is a good idea to use your metronome and to set it for

a 4/4 tempo so that you have an accent on the first beat of each measure.

So now I'm going to set my metronome at a relatively slow count

of 50 beats a minute and I'm going to set it with an accent.

On the first note, of each measure of four four.

[MUSIC]

So you can hear, [SOUND] every four beats, there's an accent.

[SOUND] One, two, three, four.

[SOUND] One, two, three, four.

[SOUND] The important thing to remember is, you're reading chord charts.

Is that time keeps moving, and so you should strive to play each chord for

the correct number of beats, and then move on the the next chord,

and play that chord for the correct number of beats.

Try to keep going, even if you make a mistake.

Now I'm going to use a simple downstroke,

for each beat, of each chord.

Here goes.

One, two, three, four

[MUSIC]

So, if you learn to read basic chord triads.

You'll find that there's a wealth's of music out there, and

many, many songs that you can play using just a few chords,

either bar chords or open position chords or power chords.

There are many, many songs out there that you'll have at your disposal.

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