Easy Guitar Chords

The E form breaks down into a variety of easy guitar chords. In rock and punk guitar, the E & A chord forms are mostly widely utilized. They are important chords to know & to understand how they create other chords by moving the shape, & breaking them into fragments.

Here's the E chord on a chord frame:

Just like the C form, the E form moves up to create the other Major chords.

We'll close the open strings this time, by barring. Here's how the E form is fingered (example ONE fret up - F).

This isn't all so easy. You have to 'wiggle' your way into getting the angle & the pressure right. There isn't a need to press all the strings down, just the ones you need (1, 2, & 6).

I Love Guitar doesn't consider this a beginner's chord, or an easy guitar chord.

Where we get easier chords, is by breaking this 6 string chord into FRAGMENTS (pieces of larger).

The first chord shown below is the full version, so you can compare the fragments to it.

And here is another set of fragments:

The little numbers next to the fingering dots are finger numbers. The R, 3, & 5's to the right of each frame is the chord component (R = ROOT, 3 = 3rd, 5 = 5th).

By understanding how the E form moves up, plus can be broken down, you get a bunch of mileage out of this one type of chord.

A little math helps us see the bigger picture.

Remember, there are 12 tones.

The E form can be moved to every position (fret location of index finger).

Just taking these 7 fragments (there are more - & too many to name if you include open strings), we get 12 x 7 = 84 chords.

That's good mileage.

C Form

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