Got a couple of questions.

1) after a couple of weeks of so, how may chords could you do without help or looking?

2) How long did it take you to be able to switch to chords fairly smoothly?

Just want to know, to see how im doing haha.

Thank you

~Conor

Myself  i started with Amajor Cmajor Eminor and Aminor in the open position it took over a month maybe longer befor i could switch between them fluently, but every one is differnt so its hard to say how well you should be doin it may takes some time to get comfortable with chord switching so dont rush it.

...simply learning chords can become very boring in a hurry...one (among many) way to enjoy the process is to always learn chords to a song that you LIKE and WANT to learn to play. That way, you gain TWICE in the process: first, by learning a new chord and,second, by learning a new song (to play).

...one starting point are the CAGED triad chord sets:

C, F and G
A, D and E
G, C and D
E, A and B
D, G and A

...notice how many of the same chords will be used in more than one "key" chord set.

I've been at this about 2 months.  I agree with finding songs that have the chords you want/need to learn.  My "coach" tabbed a few songs that I know so that practicing is fun.  I'm retired and, at 60, have the time to spend about 2 - 3 hours a day "plunking" in my music "closet".  I've learned to chord about 5 or 6 songs so far.  My wife says the chords sould good, but she can't recognize the songs.  I keep telling her that if I SANG with the chords, she might recognize the song but would kick me out of the house and into the garage to practice!  There are a number of websites I've found that have free simplified tabs for popular songs.  I've printed a number off that site and keep them in my practice note book.

Having a "coach" is a real plus.  When I get to a point that I'm ready for something new, I get together with him and he gives me swomething new to work at.  Also, he is teaching me "guitar players" methods and not necessarily "classic" methods of guitar.  The chords are the same, but with somewhat different fingering at time to make switches easier.

Good Luck and HAVE FUN........I am.

After a few weeks I actually gave up on learning chords, but I learned GM, AM, EM, Em, and CM. After that, I started learning chords on song that I wanted to learn so now I know GM, AM, Am, EM, Em, Em7, CM, Csus7, and too many others to name

Newbie Dean wrote:

I've been at this about 2 months.  I agree with finding songs that have the chords you want/need to learn.  My "coach" tabbed a few songs that I know so that practicing is fun.  I'm retired and, at 60, have the time to spend about 2 - 3 hours a day "plunking" in my music "closet".  I've learned to chord about 5 or 6 songs so far.  My wife says the chords sould good, but she can't recognize the songs.  I keep telling her that if I SANG with the chords, she might recognize the song but would kick me out of the house and into the garage to practice!  There are a number of websites I've found that have free simplified tabs for popular songs.  I've printed a number off that site and keep them in my practice note book.

Having a "coach" is a real plus.  When I get to a point that I'm ready for something new, I get together with him and he gives me swomething new to work at.  Also, he is teaching me "guitar players" methods and not necessarily "classic" methods of guitar.  The chords are the same, but with somewhat different fingering at time to make switches easier.

Good Luck and HAVE FUN........I am.

Welcome to chordbook!! Hopefully this bit of info will help you along: those different chord fingerings are called inversions and the chord generator tool on this site can show all the useful possible inversions for each chord. Have fun with it and feel free to pick the collective mind at this site.

Thanks fo rthe warm welcome!!  I've already gotten a few "nuggets" from the members.  I'm aware of inversions, but I've been sticking to the basic fingerings only in a few instances, I use fingers 2-3-4 instead of 1-2-3 to make the trasition to the next chord easier.  I don't believe this is an "inversion.  I'm nowhere near ready to trry inversions.  But, you're right, this site is excellent for seeing and hearing chords.

Take Care!!