Basic Tips for Playing Electric Guitar Chords

Video Transcript

" Hi! My name is Mike Larney from the band Naked Underneath, and on behalf of Expert Village I am going to be discussing some techniques to troubleshoot some of the chords that you are going to learn. In the last clip we have discussed the G chord and the D chord, and to make sure that you are playing these right, be sure that every string is making the proper noise. As you work your way down, make sure that they are all ringing out clearly. A couple of the different things that could be going wrong is that your finger may not be butted up against the fret, if it is over the fret it could be buzzing, if your fingers are coming down the strings correctly you could be obstructing other strings, so you want to make sure that everything has free space to be able to ring out clearly. And also, when you change the chord, you know, it would not hurt to think about where it is that your fingers are going, you say, okay… this finger is going from here to here, try to vision in your mind, and try to get a clear ring out when your change it. So that is a couple of tips on troubleshooting your chords if they are not sounding right to you. "