This series of articles will teach you basic guitar chords and
then show you how to play these guitar chords at different
positions on the fretboard to give different chords. We will
start off with basic Major chord patterns first. Take a look at
the chord below. This is the chordbook version of the E Major
chord, usually abbreviated to just E. The fingering I prefer to
use is shown below This leaves my first finger floating above
the strings. I can then move this chord to any position on the
fretboard and lay my first finger down forming a bar across the
first, second, and sixth strings one fret below my second
finger. The root note of this chord is the note being played on
the sixth string. By knowing all the notes on the sixth string,
you can play any Major chord on the guitar. Just in case you
don’t know the notes on the sixth string, here they are: Using
this principle, we can move the first finger up to the third
fret to play a G Major chord or the fifth fret to play an A
Major chord. The G chord is sho