How to Read Guitar Charts

Video Transcript

"In this section, I'm going to talk about how to read a chord chart. It's pretty easy if you know the trick. Right here, we're going to learn to play the chord of A. Right here, A. Now, if I just take my guitar and I put it up like this. Then, this is a drawing of my guitar. Ok. So, we have here this is fret one fret one. Fret two, fret two. These are the strings. These lines here are the strings. So, this is string one string two string three string four string five string six. String one-two-three-four-five-six. So, it's a mirror like that. It's a drawing, ok. Now, these numbers this is where I push. And, they're numbering my fingers. Ok. And, they're numbering my fingers like this. One-two-three-four. So, it's telling me to put my fingers right there. And, if you can look right here. If I hold it up this way, you can see that's pretty much a mirror of what I did right there."