hii guys............................i just wanna knwo dat how 2 recognise chords..........dat dese r d chords used in this songs.................by now i know much of the major chords which r majorly used in all songs.................help me in this..................thanks a lot...............sandy

well, to recognize chords in a song, they usually put the chords right above the word that you play the chord on. example:  G                 C                        Em
                             "you are my strength when i am weak"     
....in a song, you would play the chods (the
letters on the top of the words) when you get to them. so if you're singing this song, you would play the chords when you get to the word they're above. now if you're reading tab, then it's a little trickier. you'll have to put your fingers on the frets that the tab says, and you should be puting your fingers in a chord possition. example:     
                               -3--        .......that is how they would write a G chord on a tab....hope this helps a bit..
                               -0--
                               -0--
                               -0--
                               -2--
                               -3--

i did undesrtand sme thngs..........but the thngs is how 2 regocnise by my own.................if i wanna make any song by ma own den how 2 place in dat chord in d rite place................

hmmm.....i don't think i'll be able to help you with that though. i don't make my own songs....sorry.

hey tom...............................its nt like dat............i mean dat...........if the line of the song is dis......................
"things will always b d same..............but not my love.........."
how will u chord dis line..................i just wanna understand dat...............




sandy

Typically, a song will have a key signature. A given key signature has certain chords that go to it. For example, the key of C major consists of the chords C, D minor, E minor, F, G or G7, A minor, and B diminished. It doesn't matter what order they are in or that all of them are used in any particular song.

ya what he said!

Is there any place to find a full list of chord progressions?   Is there a website that would be of some help?

Beado

Chord progressions? The possibilities are near infinite for chord progressions. Or perhaps, you're asking about key signatures and which chord possibilities belong to them. If that is the case, here are some links that should be helpful:

http://www.riffinteractive.com/

http://www.theguitarmaster.co.uk/polls/index.php

http://forum.ibanez.com/Default.aspx?g= … mp;t=70657

http://www.fretjam.com/guitar-chord-theory-4.html

http://www.guitarlessonworld.com/lessons/index.htm

http://www.guitar-tutorial.net/diatonic.html

Would a circle of fifths be of help here? 
Or does that only apply to blues?

...in simplist terms, a chord is the first three "odd" notes from the Signature Key scale (ie: FIRST (root), THIRD (III) and FIFTH (V) notes) being sounded/played simultaneously...TRIAD means containing three (tri) notes; a TETRA chord means having four notes.

...after that, they get progressively more "complex" as different notes get minored, diminished, augmented and/or altered.

..and then the chord can be 'extended' (by adding another note) like this:

4 note chord = 7th  = Root, 3rd, 5th, Major 7th or dominant 7th
5 note chord = 9th  = Root, 3rd, 5th, dom7, 9th
6 note chord = 11th = Root, 3rd, 5th, dom7, 9th, 11th
7 note chord = 13th = Root, 3rd, 5th, dom7, 9th, 11th, 13th

...of course, guitar players don't (can't) play 7-note chords, so it's common to omit lesser importance tones, and only play the two 'guide tones' (3rd & dom7th) and the upper 'color' tones, such as 9th, 11th and 13th notes.

Old Tele man wrote:

...in simplist terms, a chord is the first three "odd" notes from the Signature Key scale (ie: FIRST (root), THIRD (III) and FIFTH (V) notes) being sounded/played simultaneously...TRIAD means containing three (tri) notes; a TETRA chord means having four notes.

...after that, they get progressively more "complex" as different notes get minored, diminished, augmented and/or altered.

..and then the chord can be 'extended' (by adding another note) like this:

4 note chord = 7th  = Root, 3rd, 5th, Major 7th or dominant 7th
5 note chord = 9th  = Root, 3rd, 5th, dom7, 9th
6 note chord = 11th = Root, 3rd, 5th, dom7, 9th, 11th
7 note chord = 13th = Root, 3rd, 5th, dom7, 9th, 11th, 13th

...of course, guitar players don't (can't) play 7-note chords, so it's common to omit lesser importance tones, and only play the two 'guide tones' (3rd & dom7th) and the upper 'color' tones, such as 9th, 11th and 13th notes.

OK I've been dodging this lesson for a while now but hope now I'm ready for it. When you say 11th for example, does that mean the octave above 3rd? Or am I just totally lost here? 13th is the octave above the 5th?

Hope this summary chart shows up alright. I got this from OTM some time ago and it helps me a lot.
It's real handy when learning how chords are made.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v245/ … UMMARY.gif

Cheers,

GuitarZen

bobo, the 11th is the octave above the 4th.

ummm the easiest way i can think of to figure it out is to just think, you know that the 8th note in the scale is the octave of the root note, the 9th note will then be the 2nd but an octave, 10th will be the 3rd but an ocatave, 11th will be 4th but an octave etc.

its silly lol.

thnx freak i appreciate your assistance.

...in "real" (ie: piano) music theory, the 11th is an octave "above" the 4th, or as piano notation would show it:

C = 1 = root
D = 2 = 2nd
E = 3 = 3rd
F = 4 = 4th
G = 5 = perfect 5th
A = 6 = Major 6th
B = 7 = Major 7th
C = 8 = Octave (Italian for 8th)
D = 9 = same note as 2, hence sometimes written as 2/9
E = 10 = 10th (but more commonly referred to as octave-3rd)
F = 11 = same note as 4, hence sometimes written as 4/11
G = 12 = 12th (but morfe commonly referred to as octave-5th)
A = 13 = same note as 6, hence sometimes written as 6/13

...on a piano, they're different notes, an octave apart, but on a guitar (especially when played in a chord, where notes are sounded simultaneously) where such "stretches" are impossible, the 'octave' above rule is ignored and the notes "embedded" within the first octave (Root-to-octave) are used.

...that's *where* the guitarists' "rule-of-thumb" for making "fancy" (jazz) chords comes:

9 = 7 + 2
11 = 7 + 4
13 = 7 + 6

...where a dominant 7th note is the "anchor" tone between the first octave notes (ie: R, 3rd, 5th) and the upper (or extended) chord notes (2/9th, 4/11th, 6/13th) which are supposed to be in the upper octave but aren't (usually) with guitar chords.

Ok Ok I get it. Wow thank you very much. I'm gonna learn all this theory yet, might take me til I'm 100, but with clear explanations like that I'm gonna get there. Someday