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Playing the guitar is a very exciting and entertaining activity. And you don't have to be a professional guitarist to master it. The simplicity and accessibility of the instrument allows anyone to perform their favorite songs to the best of their ability.
What is chord fingering?
Theoretical concepts that are necessary to master the guitar include the ability not so much to understand musical notation (to know and understand the constituent parts of chords, which is required when playing other instruments, although this is also necessary), but the ability read chord fingerings.
Chord fingering is a schematic representation of frets on the neck of an instrument, strings and guitarist's fingers with marks that allow you to correctly put this or that chord. Without mastering the skills of correctly reading such diagrams, learning to play the guitar is very problematic, even if you fully master musical notation.
How to read chord fingerings correctly?
If you put the guitar against the wall with the pegs up, then the fret bars willarranged horizontally, and the stretched strings will be parallel to the fretboard - vertically. The “thickest” string will be located on the extreme left, the thinnest one on the right. And if you schematically display this view on paper, then you get the basis on which the fingering is built. It will exactly repeat the lines of frets and strings. The chord fingering for a six-string guitar contains six vertical lines, for a seven-string - seven.
To the right or left of the conditional fretboard on the diagram, fret numbers are placed in the form of Roman numerals I, II, III, IV, etc. The frets are counted from the topmost. Each vertical line depicting a string is denoted by a capital Latin letter and corresponds to a specific note that can be played in its unpressed (open) state: E (note mi), A (note la), D (note re), G (note sol), B (note si), E (note mi). The string designations of the chord fingerings never change, and therefore the guitar is tuned exactly according to the indicated notes.
Additional designations on the fingering
The diagram also shows how each string sounds. The signs “o” and “x” at the top of the fingering tell the guitarist that the string marked with a circle (o) is not pressed and should sound open, and the one marked with an oblique cross (x) is muffled. The basic information that chord fingerings carry concerns the correct placement of the guitarist's fingers. The places where the strings are pressed against the neck of the guitar are shown by circles with numbers inscribed in them. The numbers indicate which finger should be pressedcorresponding string.
There are chords that require the guitarist to use a special technique to press the strings. This technique is called “bare” and is indicated either by a solid thick line crossing all the guitar strings at a certain fret, or by circles with the number 1 inscribed in them. This designation indicates that all strings are pressed with the index finger at the same time when setting this chord.
Fingering options
A lot of chord fingerings can be found nowadays, but the arrangement of the diagrams can only be in two variations. One is the one described above, the other differs from it only in the direction of the neck (strings). If in the first case the strings are shown by vertical lines, and the frets are horizontal, then in the second case the frets are arranged vertically, and the strings are horizontal. It's as if the first version of the chord fingering is rotated 90 degrees to the left. With this arrangement, the left "thick" string becomes the lowest, and the fret count starts from the left side. All other designations remain the same. This guitar chord fingering is obtained when the instrument is placed on the lap with the strings up.
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