Easy Guitar Chords

The E form breaks down into a host 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.

Let's take a look at 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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