A guitar is an amazing instrument. Sometimes hard to play but with easy nice sounding guitar chord secrets everywhere. Let’s explore some easy but nice guitar chords.
Our first guitar chord will be Dmaj7. It is played in this way for example:
Dmaj: 0/4 2/3 2/2 2/1
An explanation of the notation. The first number indicates which fret to press down. The number after the slash which string. 2/3 means, press down the second fret on the third string.
If you lift up your fingers from this chord you will get a very easy guitar chord to play indeed! We can call it an Em7. It will look this way:
Em7: 0/4 0/3 0/2 0/1
This little chord progression makes a nice little intro to a song in D-major. If we write down a little guitar chord sequense it might look like this:
Dmaj7 / / / Em7 / / / Dmaj7 / / / Em7 / / /
We will now spice the second chord a bit by playing a Gm6. It looks like this:
Gm6: 0/4 3/3 3/2 0/1
We can use this guitar chord in an intro with the same function as the one above:
Dmaj7 / / / Gm6 / / / Dmaj7 / / / Gm6 / / /
Let’s introduce a new guitar chord. We can call this chord D11:
D11: 0/4 5/3 5/2 5/1
As you maybe already have figured out you can slide the Dmaj7 chord up a few frets and you will get this chord. We will now create a progression with these three guitar chords:
Dmaj7 / / / D11 / / / Gm6 / / / Gm6 / / /
The next guitar chord is easy to play too. It is a G-minor chord. It is actually the same chord shape as the guitar chord Dmaj7 but on the third fret. It looks like this:
Gm: 0/0 3/3 3/2 3/1
Now we will create a guitar chord progression with these four chords together:
Dmaj7 / / / D11 / / / Gm / / / Gm6 / / /
The art of sliding chords to new frets is an exciting and easy way to find new guitar chords and sounds to use in your playing.
We will end this article on easy guitar chords in D by experimenting a bit with the D-major chord. Here is the most common D-major chord:
D: 0/4 2/3 3/2 2/1
By sliding this guitar chord up three frets up you will get the Dm7 chord or D-minor seventh. It looks like this:
Dm7: 0/4 5/3 6/2 5/1
Slide it up two frets from this position and you will get a G-major chord. It looks like this:
G: 0/4 7/3 8/2 7/1
The last guitar chord to explore will be A-major with D bass, notated A/D. Here it is:
A/D: 0/4 9/3 10/2 9/1
Let’s make an impressive intro with these four chords but with the same chord shape by sliding the D-major chord up:
D / / / Dm7 / / / G / / / A/D / / /
The guitar really is an amazing instrument. Many more chords can be changed in similar ways to create new interesting sounds that will enrich your playing!
Peter Edvinsson
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Piano or guitar lessons?
I’m taking music lessons for the summer (13 yr old) and I don’t know which to pick!
I have an electric guitar with an amp at home, and I also have a huge piano at home which no one plays.
My fingers are relatively thin/long and my mom tells me that it’s better for the piano. But my friends are telling me that the guitar is better.
I wanna take both, but it’s probably like gonna be 5000 dollars, so obviously, I can’t!
I want to take piano….. mainly because it seems to sound nicer and doesn’t require you to strain your fingers.
I have somewhat good memory (im not flattering my self! lol), so it’s like 50/50 for both. I tested out both instruments before and I memorized all the main chords and some sharps and flats for the the chords on the guitar, and I memorized the 12 notes on the piano.
They’re both like equal to me!!
But the scales for both instruments are challenging, but gratifying to learn, so wtf?!?! It’s like, damn… I’m so stuck!
Please help! And give your opinions (don’t say piano is boring or guitar is cool or anything like that).
I listen to rock mainly, and would definitely like to rock out to songs, but piano is awesome too. I mean, wouldn’t it be cool to just play some Mozart or Bach effortlessly?
So yeah. Please help!!!!
Micah, you really convinced me to choose piano! But I don’t really know yet, I want to ask someone who plays both instruments and get their real opinions and reasons and such. It’s such a hard decision. I’m planning to stick with just that instrument this time, instead of just flying from one to another… (like I did with drums and flute…)
And I don’t mean to say playing Mozart and Bach effortlessly, I’m just admiring how other people get so good at it, it seems like they play it effortlessly. : )
And I’m aware that both instruments will give you a bit of pain in your hands (no pain, no gain!). I just think that the piano will be less painful than calluses from the guitar.
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BY THE WAY, I have a lot of piano sheet music (like books and stacks) of them at home because my cousin has been playing it for 11 years.
I can play really simple tunes, like Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, and other beginners stuff.
Guitar is much more rewarding to learn. And more portable then a grand piano.
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maybe you could do both. like i heard pianos have strings in them. so hook the strings up to your guitar. then when you strum the string it plays the piano. you could call it the guitar piano. i would do this myself but as i have no arms it is very difficult to strum the guitar strings. if i had enough money i would buy a replacement set of arms, but i think the only viable way to get money is through guitar piano. you can see the conundrum, of course.
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I’m your age so this is coming from someone who knows..lol jk but I say guitar cuz all my friends are in piano and everyone I’ve met that takes it hates it so ya I say guitar
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I believe piano is the better choice, for many reasons. First, pianos rarely go out of tune, and tuning a guitar can be a pain. Second, long and thin fingers are very useful on the piano, but are a pain on guitar. Your friends may say guitar is better, but they are biased by popular music, don’t you want to learn the classics? Don’t you want to be a versatile player, and not be limited to a few genres, like you wold on guitar? Third, scales will be difficult on any instrument, there is no getting around that, but on piano they are much easier, once you learn the simple rule that goes behind them (WWHWWWH) rather than memorizing key signatures. Fourth, guitar is not ‘cool’ it is in style, and will fade, while piano is the most highly played instrument and the modern version is over 300 years old. Fifth, you will learn much more music theory playing piano, and other instruments will be miles easier. Sixth, piano is much more sophisticated, and you will be looked up to if you play such a moving instrument, whereas on guitar you can only amount to a washed up rock star wanna-be. Finally, as an end note, Mozart and Bach will never come ‘effortlessly’ as you put it, it will always be a challenge, no matter how advanced you get, and it is very ignorant to consider it ‘effortless’
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1 year of guitar, and 7 of piano.
I play keyboards (piano) and guitar plus bass guitar, ukulele and organ…
I would highly reccomend the piano lessons. You can basically learn guitar off the internet, piano not so much. Take the piano lessons.
Don’t be fooled into thinking that piano is painless BTW, you’re hands will cramp and get sore until you build the proper strength.
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