Chords D7 and G The next chord to learn is D7. This chord uses
three fingers. Study the chord chart shown in FIGURES 5-8 and It
will probably take some practice before you make the D7 chord
sound clearly. Work at it. A good exercise is to first press
hard and play the chord. Next, relax your hand and lift your
fingers slightly off the guitar strings but keep them in the
shape of the chord. Then put your fingers back on the strings —
again, pressing hard. This helps build muscle memory, so that
the fingers remember where they should go to form this chord.
When you can hold the D7 chord with all three fingers and sound
the chord clearly, with no buzzing strings, it is time to move
on and learn the basic G chord. The form is shown in FIGURES
5-10 and In the next song, “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star,” shown
in FIGURE 5-12, you'll have to move back and forth among the
different chords you've learned so far. Notice that in this
song, in the second and third bars and elsewhere, you'll play
two beats of C and then two