Summary: This free video clip will show you where to go to find new guitar chords that you might not have known about and how to incorporate them into your playing.
Athena Reich is a professional musician, actress, artist, singer, songwriter and coach for all of the above. She is based in New York City. Reich has released four CDs, toured...read more
"In this clip I'm going to talk about how to learn more chords. Pretty soon you're going to get sick of A, D and E chords. You're going to want to learn more and so how do you find out how to play more chords? One thing is you can go on the Internet and you can search for chords and or chord encyclopedia or chord charts and there's going to be tons of free sites with more of those little graphs, those little square graphs, chord charts telling you how to play the chords. Another thing you can do is you can buy a book like this called the Guitar Chord Encyclopedia and this has almost every chord that exists in the world and how to play it. It's written out exactly the way that we talked about. Here's the frets, here's the strings. It's telling you to use your finger, one two, three, four. It's telling you don't play that string, telling you to play that string. This way you can pick up any book of music, the most complicated song ever and you can learn how to play any chord you want with a book like this."