Any consonance of three (or more) notes that can be played on the guitar is called a chord. For each such chord, you can write the corresponding designation, the number of which can reach several million. So how many guitar chords are there and what exactly is this term?
Number of guitar chords
On the guitar, you can dial five thousand chords, of which seven major and seven minor fundamental chords are distinguished. In music, several hundred are usually used, of which it is enough to know only twenty chords, they will be enough to perform almost any song. Amateur guitarists mean by the word "chord" its specific fingering, of which there are not so many in non-professional practice.
There are basic chords that can be played in different ways by simply moving your fingers to one position or another.
In most cases, root chord fingerings are easily transposed to a different key using a capo or barre. In this regard, they cannot be called new chords - although many tutorials on guitar playing like to indicate a huge number of chords, thus emphasizing their weight and significance. In fact, to master the guitar, it is enough to know the basics of musical notation and a few fingerings.
Chord structure
The entire classical chord is based on a triad, which, in turn, consists of three notes arranged by moving one or more notes one octave higher or lower. There are several types of triads that can be played on the guitar - minor, major, increased and decreased. Besides the classic chord structure, there are also chords arranged in fifths or fourths. A disordered combination of several notes is called a cluster. Also, in addition to typical fingerings, it is customary to distinguish between jazz professional fingerings, which require increased flexibility of the fingers and a high level of coordination for their performance.
In addition, additional types are known that are not used in the home practice of playing the guitar.
All chords can be constructed from more than three notes - this requires adding a 4-note seventh chord, a 5-note non-chord, as well as an undecimacchord and a third-note chord to the triad. The last two chords are used exclusively by professionals. In addition, triads can be added to them, supplemented by a second, a quarter and a sixth, where the fourth note is always located in a certain period of time to one of the main notes of the triad.
Any note of a guitar chord (except for the root note) can be lowered or raised by a semitone (altered). This technique is practically not required for a simple lover of playing the guitar, since it is directly related to the types of chords, and not fingering.
