Learning Basic Chord Sets

Today we will deal with the most frequently used chord sets in many beginners songs. Just to review what we previously learned, i already introduced you the major chords like A, C, F, Bb, G, D and E. The minor chords are Am, Bm, Fm, Em, Dm and also some of the seventh chords like A7 and B7 chords. Of course these are not complete arrays of all the chords but what's important here not to neglect are the basic uses or sets of chords that a beginner must familiarize with before he go any further.

The three-chord set goes usually this way: A - D - E and back to A again. On D major key it usually is D- G - A and back to D. On G major key, its G - C - D and back to G again. On C major key, its C-F-G and back to C. On E major key its E-A-D and back to E. What's important here is for you to acquire a grasp of your first melodic flow of tunes. You're starting to build a certain frame of melodic flow in your mind.

Another set of chord is the 4-chord major-minor chord combination playing. As a beginner guitarist, as i mentioned before, we must established some skeletal framing of tunes as what usually happens in most of the songs. This is not the only tune framing that we will tackle here but lets just begin from the basics. Lets begin with key of C.

Here they are:
on C major its C-Am-Dm-G-C,
on D major its D-Bm-Em-A-D
on A major its A-F#m-Bm-E-A
on G major its G-Em-Am-D-G
on E major its E-C#m-F#m-B-E
on F major its F-Dm-Gm-C-F
on B major its B-G#m-C#m-F#-B
on Bb major its Bb-Gm-Cm-F-Bb
For the moment, try to practice a simple alternating downward-upward strumming method for every beat in a time signature as in- "1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and" so this means a downward stroke for every number indicated and a upward stroke for every "and" indicated in the measure. It will be better if you continuously do some limitless counting in order to familiarize your strumming hand.