Chord Diagrams Used in This Book

Lesson 4/32 | Study Time: 5 Min
Course: Blues Fingerpicking Guitar
Chord Diagrams Used in This Book

Chord Diagrams Used in This Book

Chords are learned with the help of a chord diagram. This will show you exactly where to place your left hand fingers in order to play a particular chord. A chord diagram is a grid of horizontal and vertical lines representing the strings and frets of the guitar as shown here.

Left Hand Fingering

The black dots show you where to place your left hand fingers. The white number tells you which finger to place on the string just before the fret. If there is no dot on a string, you play it as an open (not fretted) string.

The other chord diagram symbols used in this book are summarized with the following two chord shapes.

A dotted string indicates that string is not to be strummed. An X on the string indicates that string is to dampened by another finger lightly touching it. The string is still strummed as a part of the chord but it is not heard.

A small bar connecting several black dots indicates they are held down by the same finger. This is called barring.

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1- INTRODUCTION 2- The Rudiments of Music 3- Blues Fingerpicking Slide Guitar 4- Alternating Thumb Style 5- Fingerpicking the Blues 6- Chord Based Licks 7- More Scale Patterns 8- Bass Line Techniques 9- Blues Progressions 10- Constant Bass Line in the Key of E 11- Left Hand Techniques 12- Constant Bass Line 13- Tuning Your Instrument 14- Note Values 15- Twelve Bar Blues Progression 16- Playing Position 17- Time Signatures 18- Eight Bar Blues Progression 19- Chord Diagrams Used in This Book 20- Hand Technique 21- Scale Diagrams Used in This Book 22- Picking the Strings 23- Scales 24- Tablature 25- The Chromatic Scale 26- Tablature Symbols 27- The Major Scale 28- The Minor Scale 29- The Minor Pentatonic Scale 30- The Blues Scale 31- Keys and Key Signatures 32- Relative Keys

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