Strings in Guitar Chords & Shapes

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MICHAEL PLUNKETT: This is Michael Plunkett on behalf of Expert Village. Now, we're going to take a look at how we read the strings on our chord chart. This is the basic chart that teaches us how to read different chords for the guitar, and if you look at it, it's basically--it's a grid pattern. The simplest way to think of it is to just hold your guitar up to it, kinda next to it like that, and it basically represents this. So, the first thing that we're going to look at are the strings which are the six vertical lines. Now, there's two ways that we can describe these strings. First, we can use numbers. We start with one and we go up to six. And so, if we were coming back to the guitar, one would be our highest string, the highest pitch, and six would be our lowest string, the lowest pitch. So, we'll think of it like that. Also, if you're familiar with the string names of the guitar, you would also often here them referred to as that. In which case, we would have E, A, D, G, B, and on this high one, I'm going to write a lower case e; this is because both of these are the same note, E, and so we want to differentiate between the two so they call this high E. You could also see somebody write "High" above it. So, that's how we look at this string pattern for this chord setup.

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