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 our series of 12 Dominant 7th Guitar Chords you should know we move onto inversions on the middle four guitar strings. The next four chords all feature the same notes: G, B, D and F but in different inversions.


This inversion has the chords root note on the D string of the guitar (this is shown by the black box in the diagram). The previous inversions weve looked at on the top four strings have a thinner tone than these inversions on the middle four guitar strings. Those inversions can be useful for funk guitar amongst other things, these chords have a slightly fuller tone than the inversions on the top four strings.

Tune in tomorrow for the next installment of our series on 12 dominant 7th guitar chords you should know.

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 well 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 an F Power Chord on the guitars 3rd fret:
Its 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.

Todays D9 guitar chord of the day is another inversion of a 9th chord and continues our series of blues guitar chords.

The root note is on the A string, its easy to slip this up two frets to play an E9 chord. Use this with yesterdays A9 Guitar Chord and play through the entire blues chord progression.


D9 uses these notes: D F# A C

Tune in tomorrow for another guitar chord of the day.

Sometimes you need a chord that sounds really dissonant. Todays chord of the day is a very dissonant chord that contains 6 half steps, it contains these notes:

D, Eb, E, F, F#, G

This might not be a chord that you want to use in every song, but it can be useful to have a few very dissonant sound chords in your toolbox - even if its just to get the drummers attention!

As this chord contains 6 half steps rather than being built up in 3rds, it defies conventional chord descriptions and has no root note.

Well be look at some more dissonant chords in future posts but will return to some pleasing sounds in tomorrows chord of the day!

Yesterdays guitar chord of the day post started a new mini-series of guitar chords. Today well continue our mini-series of 12 Dominant 7th Guitar Chords you should know, with our second dominant 7th guitar inversion.

This chord and the next two chords are all played on the top four strings of the guitar.


This inversion is in root position. Thats to say, it has the root note of the chord as the lowest note. This is a G7 chord but try moving this around to other positions too.

Check back in tomorrow when well be continuing our series of 12 dominant 7th guitar chords you should know.

Were very nearly at the end of our mini-series 12 Dominant 7th Guitar Chords every guitarist should know. This G7 inversion has its root on the A string of the guitar as indicated by the black box on the chord diagram.


The notes of G7 are G, B D and F, this inversion uses them in this order:

• D (the 5th)
• G (the root note)
• B (the 3rd)
• F (the b7th)

We have just one more inversion to go in our series of Dominant 7th guitar chords, tune in tomorrow for the very last inversion of this series at Guitar Chord of the Day.

Todays Guitar Chord of the Day continues our series looking at Frank Gambales Magic Chords.
Heres the fingering for this guitar chord:


As with yesterdays inversion, todays Chord of the Day can be considered in many different ways.

C, D, G
Csus2 (1, 2, 5)
D11(b7, 1, 11)
Ebmajor 13 (13, 7, 3)
F69 (5, 6, 9)
Gsus4 (4, 5, 1)
Abmaj7#11 (3, #11, 7)
Am11 (b3, 11, b7)
Bb69 (9, 3, 6)

We can use our one Magic Chord in place of 8 different chords all with the same fingering in the same position. The chord can function as:

C, D, F, Bb and G dominant 7th chords
C, Eb, F, Bb, Ab, G major7th chords
C, A, D, G, F minor 7th chords

Weve looked at using the Magic chord as major7 and minor7 chords, today well look at using the Magic Chord as a Dominant 7th chord.  For example, we could play this inversion in the following positions and it could function as a C7:

2nd position C13 (D, G, A, D)
5th position C11 (F, Bb, C, F)
7th position C9 (G, C, D, G)
9th position C69 (A, D, E, A)
12th position C11 (C, F, G, C)

Try playing through some songs you know and dropping in other Frank Gambale Magic Chords in place of major and minor inversions you might use and tune in tomorrow for another Guitar Chord of the Day. 

In a previous Guitar Chord a Day post we introduced the idea of playing guitar chords with harmonics.

Todays guitar chord is a simple B minor triad. Play this chord with harmonics by lightly resting your finger touching the strings over the 7th fret, once youve plucked them you can remove your left hand to let them ring.

Guitar harmonics have a beautiful chime like sound and are a simple way to add some tonal variation to common chords.

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Playing the natural harmonics on the guitar creates a beautiful chime like sound. Usually guitar harmonics are played as part of solos but we can also play a number of chords just from the natural harmonics of the guitar.

To play natural harmonics, rest your finger lightly above the fret. Todays guitar chord of the day is a D Major chord played only with harmonics. This can work well when substituted for an ordinary D Major chord at the end of song or in a break.

Rest your finger lightly above the 7th fret of the guitar and play the D, G and B strings with your right hand.

Harmonics only occur on certain locations on the fretboard, in this case the notes of the harmonics (A, F# and D) are the same for the harmonics at the 7th fret and the fretted notes but this is not always the case.

Playing some chords with harmonics can add an interesting twist to your rhythm playing. In some future posts well look at further guitar harmonic chords and chords that mix harmonics and ordinary fretted notes. Subscribe to the RSS feed and tune in tomorrow for another Guitar Chord Of The Day

Continuing our series of Dominant 7th Guitar chords, today we have the last of our inversions with notes on the middle four strings of the guitar.


This inversion has its root note on the G string and uses the notes of the G7 chord in this order:

• B (the 3rd)
• F (the b7th)
• G (the root note)
• D (the 5th)

Know weve covered  8 different inversions of G7, make sure you can play all of the Dominant 7th inversions weve looked at and played so far. Practice playing through blues progressions in different keys without changing position using different inversions of G7, C7 and D7. Try playing blues progressions in other keys too.

Tomorrow well start the final leg of our mini-series on Dominant 7th chords and look at inversions on the bottom four strings of the guitar. Check back then for another guitar chord of the day.

Todays Guitar Chord of the Day is another dissonant guitar chord in our occasional series on Dissonant Chords. As with our other dissonant guitar chords this one has 6 semitone halfsteps.

Here are the notes for this guitar chord:
D#, E, F, F#, G, G#

As this chord is very dissonant and is made up 6 half-steps, it cant really be labeled in the usual way.
Tune in to Guitar Chord of the Day tomorrow when well look at how to make lots more chords from our 12 Dominant 7th Chords Every Guitarist Should Know.

Today were starting a new mini series on 4 string dominant 7th chords. Well cover 12 different inversion of these dominant 7th chords for guitar. These are great chords to learn, remember and use... why?

• Youll be able to able to play any dominant 7th chord in any area of the neck. Chord changes sound better when they flow with good voice leading.
• You can easily modify these chords to make minor 7th, major 7th, half diminished, altered, 9th chords and more
• These chords are great for blues, funk, jazz and pop but can be used anywhere.
• Learning and using these will improve your musicianship and make you a better guitarist.

Each of these chords is played on four adjacent strings. The first guitar chords in our series will be played on the top 4 strings. So heres our first inversion:


This chord is a G7 and has its root note on the 3rd fret of the E string, but you can easily move it to other frets to transpose it.

Dominant 7th chords use the 1, 3, 5 and b7 notes of the major scale.
For a G7 chord, this is G, B, D and F.

Tune in tomorrow for the next in our series of 12 dominant 7th chords you should know.

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.

Just for a change we have another Dominant 7th guitar chord today :) Carrying on our series of Dominant 7th chords we move to the bottom four strings of the guitar. Once you have all 12 dominant 7th guitar chords under your belt, youll have the foundations of a really strong harmonic understanding of the guitar.


Todays inversion uses the bottom 4 strings of a common guitar inversion based on an E barre chord. It uses the notes of the G7 chord in this order:

• G (the root note)
• D (the 5th)
• F (the b7th)
• B (the 3rd)

These inversions with their notes on the bottom 4 guitar strings have a lot heavier, fuller sound than the inversions on the middle or top 4 strings of the guitar. Start incorporating this chord into your practice and mixing it up with the other Dominant 7th guitar inversions youve learned already.

Tune back tomorrow as we move towards the end of our miniseries on 12 Dominant 7th Guitar Chords every guitarist should know.