Reading guitar chord charts is easy! Learn exactly how to read any chord chart for guitar in this beginner guitar lesson. Guitar chord diagrams, or chord charts are just diagrams of how to play guitar chords. There are a few different kinds of chord charts for guitar but they are all easy to understand. Some guitar chord chart diagrams show finger placement, and other chord charts show the position of notes. Some chord charts show finger placement as well as the notes at the same time.

0:00 Chord Chart Basics and Finger Placement
0:31 "O" Means Play the Guitar String Open
0:36 "X" or Nothing on a Chord Chart Means Skip That String
0:48 Analyzing a Basic Guitar Chord Diagram
1:05 Chord Charts That Show Intervals Instead of Finger Diagrams
1:26 Chord Diagrams with Fingering and Musical Intervals
1:35 Numbers Next to a Chord Chart Show Which Fret to Play
1:46 Guitar Chord Charts with Music Notes Instead of Finger Numbers
2:03 When You See an "X" in a Weird Spot on a Guitar Chord Chart
2:28 Ted Greene Guitar Chord Charts
3:08 Final Thoughts

When you are just starting to play guitar, chord charts are one of the easiest ways to learn guitar chords. Guitar diagrams are simple visual references that are much easier to understand than reading music.

If you are just starting to learning guitar, this beginner guitar lesson series will teach you the guitar basics that every beginner guitar player should know.

The Guitar Basics series is for new guitar players who are learning guitar for the first time. We learn about the parts of different guitars, what notes are in music, how to tune a guitar with a tuner or without, how to learn the notes on the fretboard of the guitar, how to read guitar tabs, and how to read guitar chord charts. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgwBV0IjbqqGsAqW6sS_Oy24e2d3anIqe

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