C7 Guitar Chord

Today's guitar chord of the day is C7, another beginner's guitar chord. This chord is easy to play: start with a regular open C major chord and add you little finger on the 3rd fret of the G string. Here is the C7 chord using a chord, standard notation and tab

7th chords are used lots in 12 bar blues progressions, in pop songs the C7 is usually followed by an F major chord.

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D add9 Guitar Chord

Today's Guitar Chord of the Day is Dadd9. This Guitar Chord is based on a standard D major chord with the added 9th note of the major scale, in this case E.

The Dadd9 chord uses these notes: D, F#, A, E
 D add9 is related to D sus2, so what's the difference? All suspended chords leave out the 3rd note of the scale, in D this is F#. So Dsus2 uses these notes: D, E, A. The sus stands for suspended, the other more common sus chord is a sus4.

The fingering for this inversion involves a small stretch to the 5th fret, with the first finger barring the top 3 strings.

D add9 can be played anywhere that you would normally play a standard D Major Guitar Chord. Check out these other add9 guitar chords or use search function to find the chord you want.

F Minor Guitar Chord | Beginners Guitar Chords

Today's guitar chord of the day is F minor. This chord is played with a half-barre where the first finger lays across the top 3 strings.
Playing F minor with a half-barre (this is where your finger covers half of the strings rather than all) is a good half-way step towards playing full barre chords when you're learning. You can also play this chord with a full barre chord with this finger, here the first finger lays across all six strings of the guitar.
F minor uses these F, Ab and C. Check out these other beginner chords or use the search function to find the chord you want.

A add9 Guitar Chord

Today's guitar chord of the day is Aadd9. This chord is a regular A major chord with and added 9th, the 9th in the key of A is B. This inversion is played in open position.

Add9 chords use the scale notes: 1, 3, 5, 9
An A add9 chord uses the notes: A, C#, E, B

As add9 guitar chords are the same as major chords with one added note, you can play add9 chords anywhere that you would normally play a normal major chord.

Check out these other add9 guitar chords, or use the search box to find the chord you want.

G add9 Guitar Chord

Today's Guitar Chord of the Day is G add9. Add9 chords sound great and can be played in the place of any regular major chord. There are plenty of other inversions of this chord but this fingering uses just 3 fingers and is a modified version of a regular open G major chord.
Use your first finger to fret the low E string and also to mute the A string to prevent it from ringing.

Add9 chords have the same notes as a regular major chord but with an added 9th.

Gadd9 uses these notes: G, B, D and A

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E add9 Guitar Chord

Today's Guitar Chord of the Day is E add9. This Guitar Chord is a simple variation on a standard E major guitar chord, adding the 9th note of the scale.
In this inversion we take a standard E major open chord voicing and add the 9th on the 2nd fret of the E string using the little finger.

Add9 chords can be played anywhere that you would normally play a normal major chord, so try substituting this chord, or adding it as a simple embellishment to a regular E chord while you're playing.

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G Guitar Chord | Beginners Guitar Chords

The G guitar chord is a really useful guitar chord for beginners to learn.


To play this guitar chord shape, put your middle finger on the 3rd fret of the E String, your 1st finger on the 2nd fret of the A string and your 3rd finger on the 3rd fret of the top E string.

The G guitar chord uses the notes G, B and D. Check out other beginner guitar chords here

Advanced Guitar Power Chords

In our last post we looked at using guitar power chords and moving these around the neck as an easy way to play rock guitar.

Today we'll look at some much less common ways of playing power chords, including fat power chords that are played using all six strings and some more unusual inversions.

In the last guitar power chord post, we played some 3 note power chords that doubled up on the root note, repeating it one octave higher:

In this inversion the 5th has been doubled. The root note is on the A string giving us a C Power Chord. Mixing up root position and inverted power chords gives some interesting riffs and can be a really easy way of changing between power chords on the guitar.

Playing this inversion on the A, D and G strings uses exactly the same fingering. Here on the 5th fret with the root on the D string we can play a G Power Chord.

We have to adjust the fingering a little to play the inversion on the D, G and B strings. Here we play a Bb Power Chord on the guitar's 3rd fret:

It's also possible to play four string power chords on the guitar to get an even fatter sound:

Using open strings, six string power chords are possible too (the easiest way to play this chord is to barre across the second fret with your first finger to play the D and G strings and lay your little finger across the B and E strings at the 5th fret:

Try incorporating some of these more advanced rock guitar chords into your playing and check back soon for another guitar chord of the day.

Guitar Power Chords

Play electric guitar? Then you need to know all about power chords. Power chords are easy guitar chords to play and sound great with lots of distortion. Power chords are played in all types of rock music because they sound great on a overdriven guitar, whereas other chords can sound messy.

Power chords use just two notes, the root and 5th of the scale, the root note is marked by the square box.

There is no such thing as a minor power chord or a major power chord. Power chords use only the root and 5th from the major scale, so they're frequently labelled 5th chords e.g.

G5 has these notes in: G, D

You can also play this chord with three notes, doubling the root note an octave higher.

These are easy rock guitar chords to play as you can move them anywhere on the guitar's neck:

• 1st Fret = F Power Chord
• 2st Fret = F#/Gb Power Chord
• 3rd Fret = G Power Chord
• 4th Fret = G#/Ab Power Chord
• 5th Fret = A Power Chord
• 6th Fret = A#/Bb Power Chord
• 7th Fret = B Power Chord
• 8th Fret = C Power Chord
• 9th Fret = C#/Db Power Chord
• 10th Fret = D Power Chord
• 11th Fret = D#/Eb Power Chord
• 12th Fret = E Power Chord

 You can play the same fingering with the root note on the A string, here the two note version of the power chord, with the root note on the 3rd fret giving us a C Power Chord:

Here's the three note version of the power chord, with the root note on the 5th string giving us a D Power Chord:

Again, you can play this chord on any position on the guitar neck:

• 1st Fret = A#/Bb Power Chord 
• 2st Fret = B Power Chord 
• 3rd Fret = C Power Chord 
• 4th Fret = C#/Db Power Chord 
• 5th Fret = D Power Chord 
• 6th Fret = D#/Eb Power Chord
• 7th Fret = E Power Chord
• 8th Fret = F Power Chord
• 9th Fret = F#/Gb Power Chord
• 10th Fret = G Power Chord
• 11th Fret = G#/Ab Power Chord
• 12th Fret = A Power Chord

Power chords are usually played on the bottom, thicker strings of the guitar as this gives a much fuller sound. That said, you can play power chords on the higher strings and this can be a really useful of making up guitar riffs by mixing up power chords that are played on different strings.

The two note power chord on the D and G strings of the guitar uses the same fingering, here with the root on the 3rd fret giving us an F power chord:

When playing the 3 note power chord we need to adjust the fingering slightly to compensate for the way the guitar is tuned. Here we have a G Power Chord with the root on the 5th fret of the D string.

As with the other inversions, these power chords can be played on any position on the guitar:

• 1st Fret = D#/Eb Power Chord 
• 2st Fret = E Power Chord 
• 3rd Fret = F Power Chord 
• 4th Fret = F#/Gb Power Chord 
• 5th Fret = G Power Chord 
• 6th Fret = G#/Ab Power Chord
• 7th Fret = A Power Chord
• 8th Fret = A#/Bb Power Chord
• 9th Fret = B Power Chord
• 10th Fret = C Power Chord
• 11th Fret = C#/Db Power Chord
• 12th Fret = D Power Chord

 Try mixing up these chords and check here for advanced guitar power chords.