

Even beginners with no guitar experience can build a chord vocabulary that gives them rhythmic command over a lot of different music. The path to get from knowing zero chords to playing full songs is actually quite short.


If you struggle with these concepts, it's also okay to learn the chords by pattern memory and then come back to the theory later. Just keep in mind that understanding guitar chords in a structural sense should involve basic theory and some familiarity with the following terms:Įven if you're a beginner, it's okay to start learning this stuff. First, you can certainly take the charts and tabs, read from them and ignore the music theory.
