Guitar Chord

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

Carrying on with the Jimi Hendrix chords mini-series at guitar chord of the day, well follow up yesterdays post with another fingering of the famous Hendrix Chord, used in Purple Haze, Stone Free, Cross Town Traffic and more

This chord is moveable and has its root on the the D string, though if you play it in other keys youll have to leave off the open bottom E String.
Heres the fingering for this guitar chord:

Theres also another way to play the Hendrix Guitar chord here.
7#9 chords use these degrees of the major scale: 1, 3, 5, b7, #9

E7#9 uses the notes: E, G#, B, D, F## (G)

Our inversion uses the notes in this order: E, G#, D, F## (G)

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Todays Guitar Chord of the Day is E Major 7. Todays guitar chord is easy to play and mixes open strings and fretted notes - these guitar chords have a nice sounding quality to them.
Major 7 can replace Major triads for chords I and IV in Major keys.

Major  chords use these degrees of the major scale: 1, 3, 5, 7

E Major 7 uses the notes: E, G#, B, D#
Our guitar inversion uses the notes in this order: E, G#, D#, B, E

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Continuing our occassional series of dissonant chords, today we have another guitar chord that has 6 semitone steps.
As with our other very dissonant guitar chords, this will probably only be used occasionally or in special circumstances.

Todays dissonant guitar chord uses these notes:
F# G G# A A# B

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Todays guitar chord of the day is the famous first guitar chord from The Beatles A Hard Days Night from the film and album of the same name.

Heres is the actual guitar chord played by George Harrison for the A Hard Days Night intro:

Underneath this guitar chord, Paul McCartney played a D note on the bass, there was also a further piano chord in the mix. This is the reason that the naming of George Harrisons chord has been subject to some debate over the years. As weve mentioned in previous Guitar Chord a Day posts, there are many guitar chords that are synonyms - chords that have the same notes that can be named differently depending on their function.

If we assume that this chord is functioning as a G, we would name it G11 or G11/D taking into account the bass note. Weve looked at other 11th guitar inversions here.

The notes of G11 are: G, (B), D, F, A, C - though the 3rd (B) is almost always omitted.

If we assume the chord is functioning as a D we could name the chord Dm11.
The notes of Dm11 are: D, F, A, C, E G

As you can see the notes of Dm11 and G11 are very similar and this has led to some of the confusion of the chord name.

Although the above inversion is the chord that George Harrison actually played for the opening of A Hard Days Night, if youre playing this song without a bass player to play the D, it might work best if you play this inversion. Here weve included the open D string instead of the F on the 3rd fret.

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Todays Guitar Chord of the Day is B9. Dominant 9th guitar chords are simply extended 7th chords, so they work great as blues guitar chords. This chord has its root note on the guitars top E string.

Dominant 9th chords use these scale degrees: 1, 3, 5, b7, 9
B9 uses the notes: B, D#, F#, A, C#
Our inversion uses the notes in this order: A, C#, D#, B

Hook this 9th chord up with 13th chords, or other Dominant 7th chords to spice up you blues rhythm guitar playing.

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Todays Guitar Chord of the Day is A minor add9. This guitar chord is simply to play: just two fingers needed, but is a great sound variation on a regular Am guitar chord.

Add 9 chords can also be written /9 (Ted Greene is a fan of writing add9 chords this way). So todays chord can also be written as Am/9.

Minor add9 chords can be played in place of most minor chords. It can replace chords ii, vi and iii in major keys (although using it instead of chord 3 introduces a non-scale note it still sounds good).

Minor add9 chords use these degrees of the major scale: 1, b3, 5, 9
A minor add9 uses the notes: A, C, E, B
Our inversion uses the notes in this order: A, E, C, B, E

Weve featured an alternative inversion of this guitar chord here: C minor add9

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Jimi Hendrix was so famous for using this chord in his riffs and songs that although its officially called a 7#9 chord, often guitarists just refer to it as The Hendrix Chord.
Heres the fingering for this guitar chord:

Hendrix tuned his guitar down a half step (tuning his guitar Eb, Ab, Db, Gb, Bb, Eb rather than standard tuning of E, A, D, G, B, E). So his guitar sounds a semitone lower than a guitar in standard tuning (Stevie Ray Vaughan, Slash and a number of other blues rock guitarists tune down a half step in the same way).

This chord (played two frets higher in E) is the main chord of the Foxy Lady riff, used in Purple Haze, Stone Free and more.

7#9 chords use these degrees of the major scale: 1, 3, 5, b7, #9

D7#9 uses the notes: D, F#, A, C, E# (F)

Our inversion uses the notes in this order: D, F#, C, E# (F)

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Todays Guitar Chord of the Day is E minor11 or Em11.  This chord is down in open position and works as a nice variation on a regular Em chord.

Weve played a few other minor11 guitar chords here.
Minor11 chords can be played in the place of most minor chords and can replace chords ii, iii and vi in major keys.
Minor 11th chords use these degrees of the major scale: 1, b3, 5, b7, 9, 11
Em11 uses these notes E, G, B, D, F#, A
Our guitar chord of the day uses the notes in this order:
E minor11 guitar chord E, B, F#, G, D, A

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Todays Guitar Chord of the Day is D13. 13th chords together with 9th chords are really great for playing through blues progressions. Try playing through a regular blues progression using these Blues Guitar Chords in place of regular 7th chords.

Heres the fingering for this chord shape:

You can find more inversions here:

• 13th Guitar Chords
• 9th Guitar Chords

D13 uses the notes: D, F#, A, C, E, G, B
Our inversion uses the notes in this order: D, F#, C, E, B

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The A minor guitar chord, is one of the first minor chords that acoustic or electric guitar players learn. Minor chords have a sad sound compared to major chords. Am is an easy guitar chord shape to play and an easy guitar chords for beginners.
Put your first finger on the 1st fret of the B string, your second finger on the 2nd fret of the D string and your 3rd finger on the 2nd fret of the G string.

The A minor guitar chord can be written as Am or A minor. Try playing this together with the C major chord and check back soon for another guitar chord of the day.

Todays Guitar Chord of the Day is C Minor 9. This guitar chord can be played in the place of most minor chords. It can be a bit of a stretch in some positions, but its a great sounding chord to play so well worth stretching those fretting fingers for.
Weve featured an alternative inversion of this guitar chord here.

Minor 9 chords can be played in place of minor 7th chords, and almost always in place of minor chords. It can replace II, III and VI chords in major keys.

Minor 9 chords use these degrees of the major scale: 1, b3, 5, b7, 9
C minor 9 uses the notes: C, Eb, G, Bb, D
Our inversion uses the notes in this order: Bb, D, Eb, C

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Continuing our occasional series of playing guitar chords with natural harmonics, todays Guitar Chord of the Day is C Major 9.

Play the guitars bottom E string with your little finger while lightly resting your first finger on the D, G, B and E strings of the guitar.

Major 9 guitar chords can be replace major 7th chords replacing chords I and IV chords in major keys.
Major 9 guitar chords use these degrees of the major scale: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9

The C Major 9 guitar chord uses the notes: C, E, G, B, D
Our C Major 9 chord uses the notes in this order: C, D, G, B, E

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