A lot of chords have more than three notes. No surprises there - the guitar has six strings, after all. As long as you play a mixture of the first, third and fifth notes (usually with the root as the ...

When it comes to guitar chords, it all begins with basic ones that are called either major (use just the letter of the chord, eg E for E major) or minor (reduced to the letter plus m, eg Em for E ...

All these triads are derived from the 6 string major and minor chords. There are triads all over the guitar, but when you’re new to triads, this is the easiest place to start. Start with triads that ...

All the chords ... is added to a chord this is known as a seventh chord. The dominant seventh of a V chord can be shown by the symbol V7. For example, G7 is made by taking the major triad of ...

you’ll see that every major chord has a minor reflection, (shown in the inner circle) which contains all the same notes as its major counterpart. Chord vi is the minor reflection, or ‘relative minor’ ...