Page 12 - Guitar Tuition for Students and Tutors chord chart book

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In this guitar sheet we are going to learn how to read chord diagrams.
Chord diagrams are graphics that tell you where to put your fingers on the

fretboard in order to make a specific chord. Often you will see chord
diagrams at the top of a music chart or throughout the chart. Sometimes
these are put there just in case you don’t know the chord, but sometimes the
person who wrote the song wants that specific shape to be played for that

chord.

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Chord diagrams have six vertical lines that represent the strings of the
guitar and a few horizontal lines that represent the frets. The far-left string
represents the low E and the far-right string represents the high E.

Sometimes you will see diagrams with plain black dots that indicate where you
should put your fingers, and sometimes you will see black circles with numbers
in them. These numbers represent the finger number that you should be using

playing those notes.

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