Hey, I'm new to playing the guitar, and for some reason I just can't seem to understand chords lol...
I just need to know what to play when there's a bar that looks like this:
C
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ol---ol---ol---ol----------------
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And I'm using a Hal Leonard book to learn the guitar.
I know it's pretty easy to understand for most people, but for me I'm just totally braindead on it. :(
What you've posted would be individual notes, not a chord. The note that is being indicated is a G, played on the open 3rd string.
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What you've posted would be individual notes, not a chord. The note that is being indicated is a G, played on the open 3rd string.
Wait, so then what does the "C" mean?
And the C above is if you had a teacher or friend playing with you one can play the chord and then other the "lead" or individual notes.
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What you've posted would be individual notes, not a chord. The note that is being indicated is a G, played on the open 3rd string.
Umm, it's a bit confusing because you only drew 5 strings...
-Laz
I assumed standard notation.
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Umm, it's a bit confusing because you only drew 5 strings
No, those are the five lines of the musical staff (it's not tab)
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I'm guessing that C would be either an implied chord or actually played. But yeah, the note is a G and is contained within the key of C as well as being in the chord C major. It's a 5th.
Perhaps your reading an exercise playing quarter notes in the key of C in order to learn the notes on the staff. So possibly another part of this exercise would be the note B and played as quarter notes and written as this:
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ol-----ol-----ol-----ol----------
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It could be that it just wants you to play the C chord on every crochet in the bar.....a rhythm exercise
http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/5328/guitarsig6bw.gifHal leonard books all start with note reading and a picture of a chord.
The way I interpret this is a G note located at the open G string played as quarter note beats meaning it is picked 4 times. The C above the staff would be as someone said earlier, for an accompanist to follow with backing chords.
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Hal leonard books all start with note reading and a picture of a chord.
The way I interpret this is a G note located at the open G string played as quarter note beats meaning it is picked 4 times. The C above the staff would be as someone said earlier, for an accompanist to follow with backing chords.
Ah, I see. Thank you very much.
I have had experience with the Hal Leonard course. It is pretty good. I actually had taught myself how to play 2 songs full by the end of the 2nd book. Greensleeves was one of the first ones I learned. Have fun.
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