Guitar chord

As a guitar chord is called a finger combination, are gripped with the chords on the guitar. With the fingers of the picking hand or a pick while the strings are plucked or struck.

The fingerboard of the guitar is divided into confederations. These are one semitone apart. Since - in contrast to the piano - notes on the guitar at various points on the fingerboard occur more than once, and the same chord in different places of the fingerboard can be played, with each change the shape of the handle. Chords are often depicted in fingering charts ( see below).

In some chords to depress with the index finger of the gripping hand several (up to six) strings on a collar, it is necessary ( in the grip image displayed as a bar ). Such attacks are called barre chords. Prepare beginners often trouble because this gripping force is necessary, which has to be trained. With Barre Chords handles can also easily transpose it.

Strings, which are struck, but not used, is referred to as open string or empty string. There are also open tunings, in which form the six open strings without handle a simple chord.

Handle images of some chords

Z or 1 = index finger M or 2 = middle finger Or R 3 = ring finger K or 4 = Pinky O = open string ( do not attack, but strike ) Not strike X = string