THE GUITAR PAGE

This is a page for those, like me, who have just started learning to play the guitar.

I shall show you a few basic open chords and a few barre chords that I have learnt. The X means that that particular string is not played (plucked). If you do pluck it, the chord will not sound right. The letters are the strings with the thickest E string on the left and the thinnest E string on the right. The numbers correspond to the fret boxes. If the numbers are not directly under the letters, just count them in to correspond them.

Because of my lack of ability of being able to read music, the chords are in tablature rather than notation.

Also,because of copyright laws,I am unable to keep riffs on the site.But there are plenty of sites that have those tabs on.Just type in 'tablature' on a search engine or click on the link to a very good Polish site with tabs and chords on,in my links page.Though there are a lot of song writers who do not want their songs reduced to numbers (Me included,though I'll happily send you the tab if you'd like to play one of my songs),there is still a lot of willing people out there who have tabbed a song you are looking for.

If a song uses a capo,play the chord with the fret numbers from the fret where the capo is placed.

Here is a few basic open chords.

E minor - This is the easiest of all open chords. Many great songs start with this chord including Zombie by The Cranberries.

E A D G B E
0 2 2 0 0 0

E Major - This is another easy chord. Play this with the index finger free to play barre chords with this chord.

E A D G B E
0 2 2 1 0 0

C Major - This is a very useful chord as it progresses from E minor in both a physical and a musical way.

E A D G B E
X 3 2 0 1 0

A minor - This chord gives a sort of saddish feeling to songs. It is a relative minor of C Major so is very useful in songs that use C.

E A D G B E
X 0 2 2 1 0

A Major - This is another easy chord as it is all played in one fret with all fingers next to eachother.

E A D G B E
X 0 2 2 2 0

G Major - This is quite easy once your fingers can stretch across the frets.

E A D G B E
3 2 0 0 0 3

D Major - This is a nice chord for finger picking as it uses the 3 thinnest strings only.

E A D G B E
X X 0 2 3 2

FM7 (F Major 7) - This sounds great played before or after A Major.

E A D G B E
X 0 3 2 1 0

Here is a few barre chords.

F Major - You can move this down 2 frets to make a G chord sound rather than refingering.

E A D G B E
1 3 3 2 1 1

F# (F sharp) - Just move the barre down 1 fret from F to play F#. Move it down another fret from here to play G.

E A D G B E
2 4 4 3 2 2

F#m (F sharp minor) - Keep all 3 top strings pressed down to play this chord properly.

E A D G B E
2 4 4 2 2 2

B Major - There are 2 ways to play this. The other way is like an F Major on the 7th fret.

E A D G B E
X 2 4 4 4 2

B minor - This chord sounds great played before or after A Major and E Major.

E A D G B E
X 2 4 4 3 2

This table shows the fret position in relation to the E Major barre chord. For some reason there are no sharps between E and F and B and C. This also works with the E minor position.

E	F	F#	G	G#	A	A#	B	C	C#	D	D#	E
0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12

This table shows the fret position in relation to the A Major barre chord. This also works with the A minor position.

A	A#	B	C	C#	D	D#	E	F	F#	G	G#	A
0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12

More chords next update. If you have any I can add, please e-mail me