Major & Minor Guitar Chords

Series Summary

Learning how to play the guitar is one of those difficult but rewarding experiences you appreciate for a lifetime. Despite the raw, sore fingertips and the drudgery of practicing daily, playing the guitar allows you to express yourself in ways that words can’t. Your playing ability develops with a measure of patience, instruction, natural talent, and a commitment to excellence. In other words, if you want to get good, you have to play through the pain.

Have you been consistently practicing beginner guitar techniques for a few months now? Are you ready to learn more? Then it’s time to try this next set of free online guitar lessons to progress your skills. In these instructional videos, the focus is on how to play chords, including E major and minor, A major and minor, F and D major chords, and major/minor chord progressions. Chords and melodies are the basic building blocks of any modern pop song. It’s important that you learn how to master these songwriting tools if you ever hope to begin writing your own material, or even to play cover songs. Spend some time mastering a skill you’ll use throughout your guitar playing lifetime.

So, let’s get started.

Video Transcript

"In the previous section, we discussed (at the end) the C major, the G major and the D major chords. To learn how to play them we looked at their chord charts and matched that up with notation that explains which notes we're playing. Now we're going to learn some new chords. Starting with E major then A major and then F major. With each of these new chords we will be able to learn new progressions of one, four and five (in different keys). We'll show the charts for them, the notation for them. We'll make sense of them. There are things to memorize. Then we'll learn the minor chords. The minor chords will be related to the major chords in sound a fingering. They'll have the same roots in a lot of cases. Then we'll do progressions. We'll do a new progression called the one, six, two, five progression, or the turnaround progression (as it's called). Those will include major chords and minor chords being played together."