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Chapter 4
Getting a Grip on
Left-Hand Chords
In This Chapter
Fretting open-position chords
Developing and naming your barre chords
Executing different forms of barre chords
Distorting your sound to make power chords
If you’re going to play the blues, the first step is figuring out the chords.
Chords are the simultaneous sounding of three or more different-named
pitches (such as the notes in a C major chord: C, E, and G). You finger chords
with the left hand and hold these fretted notes while the right hand strums or
picks the strings.
Other instruction methods may begin by teaching single-note melodies, but
in Blues Guitar For Dummies, you cut to the chase and start off with chords
and how to play them. Chords provide the framework for the vocals and lead
instruments to do their thing and are what you need to play rhythm guitar.
And rhythm guitar is the backbone of the blues.
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