How To Read A Chord Chart For Guitar [Play Songs On The Spot]

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In this video, you learn how to read chord charts for guitar.
Unlike learning how to read notation, which is really only useful if you play classical or jazz music, knowing how to read a chord chart will benefit your guitar playing greatly!
It is a skill you use all the time, allowing you to play songs on the spot, without notice!
This lesson is divided into the following 3 sections:
• Chord Chart Overview:
You learn all the components that make up a chord chart including time signatures, bars, repeat signs, coda’s and the like so you can easily identify all the various elements that you will come across in a chord chart.
• Chord Chart Navigation:
You learn how to navigate your way through a chord chart from start to finish, adhering to all the various repeat signs and the like covered when first overviewing the chart.
• Practice Reading Chord Charts:
And most importantly, you learn how to practice getting good at reading through chord charts so you can play any song on the spot without notice.
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@lotusblossomclinic 3 месяца назад

Thank you I needed this lesson

@acousticguitarlessons 3 месяца назад

@lotusblossomclinic, you are very welcome! :)

@mareemantach9439 3 месяца назад

Thank you,well explained.

@acousticguitarlessons 3 месяца назад

@mareemantach9439, you are welcome! :)

@solomonwaigani4512 3 месяца назад

Great lesson. Many thanks!

@acousticguitarlessons 3 месяца назад

You are very welcome! :)

@ronholden3332 3 месяца назад

❤thank you so much.

@acousticguitarlessons 3 месяца назад

@ronholden3332, you are very welcome! :)

@patrickblay7684 3 месяца назад

Very interesting lesson and thank you for your explanation of those weird signs such as DS AL CODA etc… Very useful . Bravo

@acousticguitarlessons 3 месяца назад

You are very welcome! :)

@jensbomholt4529 3 месяца назад

Good explanation. One thing I do first (as a bass-player) is to get the chord sequence pattern into my system, i.e. my fingers / my left hand. This way, the "looking ahead" does not confront me with challenges and possible surprises, but guides me easily through the "organic" flow of the melody and the moves of my left hand.

@acousticguitarlessons 3 месяца назад

Thanks! Glad you liked the video :)

@davidpatrick1813 3 месяца назад

I really enjoyed this ...

@acousticguitarlessons 3 месяца назад

@davidpatrick1813, glad to hear that :) Thanks for watching!

@cleanoffice10 3 месяца назад

Tnx

@acousticguitarlessons 3 месяца назад

You are very welcome! :)

@bettyswunghole3310 3 месяца назад

I find a lot of chord charts frustrating...ones that don't give any indication of strumming pattern or only vaguely suggest where the changes are supposed to happen I find pretty useless (the "typical" Ultimate Guitar chord chard you showed in the vid being a good example). I think it stems from the idea that rhythm guitarists aren't "proper" musicians, and reply on lyrics to inform their playing.

@acousticguitarlessons 3 месяца назад

@bettyswunghole3310, yes, the lyrics with chords are limiting. Either way, a chord chart is really no more than a blueprint for a song. It shows what happens in what order, the chords, maybe some strumming suggestions etc, but nothing substitutes for listening to the song and absorbing all the details and finer nuances etc.

@xbman1 3 месяца назад

@accousticguitarlessons Where can I get that type of chord chart you have on this video? It’s exactly what I’m looking for. It doesn’t show up when I google it. Thanks in advance.

@acousticguitarlessons 3 месяца назад

@xbman1, I think I got this one for a site called "Guitar Instructor".

@xbman1 3 месяца назад

@@acousticguitarlessons Much thanks for your speedy reply. I subscribed. 🥂

@acousticguitarlessons 3 месяца назад

@@xbman1 you are welcome! And thanks for the sub, I appreciate it :)

@paradoxfromks 3 месяца назад

Chord charts don't seem to be readily available. Your format is very similar to tablature, except you've added important features such as timing etc.. I wonder how triplets. dotted notes etc are handled.

@acousticguitarlessons 3 месяца назад

@paradoxfromks, chord charts will typically only show the very basic information needed, which is their purpose :)

@nigelwalker4158 3 месяца назад

Where can you get chord charts for many popular songs. I assume there will be copyright issues, so need to buy, just like sheet mudic

@acousticguitarlessons 3 месяца назад

@nigelwalker4158, there are various sites you can purchase charts from such as "Guitar Instructor" or "Sheet Music Direct". There are plenty of free ones to be found online, but they might vary in quality and accuracy.

@mandynic9 3 месяца назад

Hey. Where can I get a copy of this song in this format please?

@acousticguitarlessons 3 месяца назад

@mandynic9, form a site called "Guitar Instructor"

@michaellunny8156 3 месяца назад

Great lesson on reading sheet music. Thanks

@acousticguitarlessons 3 месяца назад

You are very welcome! :)

@davidgamez927 3 месяца назад

what app did you use for this? 🙏

@acousticguitarlessons 3 месяца назад

If you are referring to when I am running through the chord chart, it’s just Zoom using screen share :)

@tjstevens001 3 месяца назад

I've never seen that chord chart for any song before. Where can you get them?

@tomdaun1 3 месяца назад

agree I have never seen music written like this

@acousticguitarlessons 3 месяца назад

@tjstevens001, this cam form a site called "Guitar Instructor"

@phiddler1 3 месяца назад

Clear as mud

@acousticguitarlessons 3 месяца назад

As in not?

@frankdiioia4601 3 месяца назад

Just love it, he took Hotel California as an example. Don Henley must be having a fit right now. He won’t be getting any money in return

@acousticguitarlessons 3 месяца назад

@frankdiioia4601, I didn't think of that at the time of making the video, but I guess you are on point with that :)

@asarcadyn2414 3 месяца назад

@@acousticguitarlessonsI made a video once on how to do a simple improv over Hotel California but just for a friend with the link to it. I played the chords all the way through - which, wisely, you didn't - and got a copyright strike almost immediately. The Eagles are famous for it.

@user-ky3ti7fs3i 3 месяца назад

I was under the impression that these are called tablature( tabs) for short.

@acousticguitarlessons 3 месяца назад

@user-ky3ti7fs3i, no, there is a difference between chord charts and tablature per se, however the chart I used in the video did have a component of tablature to it :)

@robertnewell5057 3 месяца назад

@@acousticguitarlessons As you verbal description makes clear, in fairness. A chord chart can simply be a list of chords in their right places in the bars, with a time sig, but it can have tab with slashes for the beats if you want, I guess.

@robertnewell5057 3 месяца назад

The example you gave of the chords above the lyrics is basically useless except as an aid to constructing a chord chart in conjunction with LISTENING to the song to get the time sig, harmonic rhythm and position of bars. Also, the chords are rarely in the right place in the 'chords above the lyrics' approach because the position hasn't translated well from the original write-up to the web version and/or because the person doing the arrangement wants to put the chord over where they think they go, often over a pickup into a bar. Not good. But if you can't get the chords by ear, they are a useful first step.

@acousticguitarlessons 3 месяца назад

Yes, which is why I don’t advocate for that approach regarding reading of chord charts :)

@WahrheitMachtFrei. 3 месяца назад

The advice you give here about not using lyrics sheets, with the chords appearing above the lyrics they come in at, is at odds with the advice given in your recent video "How to SING and Play GUITAR at the Same Time", whereby you advocated FOR it, and justified it in the comments when I gave the reasons why it is wrong-headed to use them, which incidentally includes the very reason you cite in THIS video. [Correction: It was your guest who was advocating for it, and replied in the comments]

@acousticguitarlessons 3 месяца назад

@chimpinabowtie6913, yes, it comes down to context really. If you want to learn to read a chord chart, then no I do not advocate for the lyric/chord combo, but if you want to learn to sing and play guitar, then it is in your interest to know how the lyric/words line up with your playing, and the thing I am advocating against in what I am teaching in this video becomes more relevant in the other video you are referring to if that makes sense :)

@robertnewell5057 3 месяца назад

@@acousticguitarlessons lyric/chord combo (sounds like a substandard meal) doesn't give rhythmic information.

@robertormes2178 3 месяца назад

You just have to know the song "in your head" for them to work

@WahrheitMachtFrei. 3 месяца назад

@@robertormes2178 That's the point, if you know the song in your head, and you ALWAYS do, then this method is nugatory at best, and an active hindrance to learning a song at worst, it's just a pointless crutch.

@fredworthmn 3 месяца назад

I am not for dissing a perfectly acceptable way of doing things for another way. But it suppose that gets clicks.

@acousticguitarlessons 3 месяца назад

@fredworthmn, neither am I. I truly do not advocate for the lyrics with chord format. Yes, you can use it, and learn to play the song, but you won't be learning how to read a chord chart and all that is required to do that :)