Those notes will be part of the chord he's on, so will need no fingers pressing those strings down on certain frets. So you need to be more explicit with your description of "all strings" and "fingers on some frets". A major chord is the same on all instruments, it is the combination of 1, 3, 5 notes of the major scale.
If your friend fingered three and only three notes for a Gb major chord in standard tuning and played all strings it may sound really cool, but it would not sound like a Gb major chord. Even in 4 voice harmony theory we are taught to double notes. So if your friend is playing a bar chord in standard tuning then no harm no foul, all the notes are part of the chord. For example, a Major chord in bar chord form is voiced 1, 5, 1, 3, 5, 1 , spanning 2 octaves. You have three occurrences of the 1 and 2 of the 5.
You can do this on the piano by the way. Voicing refers to the ordering of notes. It is actually not typical for a guitarist to strum ALL strings even when playing in open string keys with open string chord forms. A typical example is a dominant 7th chord. The bar chord form is voiced 1, 5, 7, 3, 5, 1 using all 6 strings.
A more typical voicing in jazz is 1, x, 7, 3, 5, x where x means don't play. Now the guitarist can play the chord finger style with the right hand or "mute" the unwanted notes by gently draping the left hand fingers over the strings that should not be heard. In this way they can appear to "strum" all strings but are really playing only the 4 they want.
So, in general one does not play all the strings all the time, but you can see that in some cases it's okay. Those cases are limited and it is no surprise that much of classical guitar music or guitar music in general is written in what I call open string keys hence, my comment maybe sometimes. Jazz guitarists get used to playing in Bb and Eb which do not lend themselves to open string voicing at least not easily and not over a large number of chords in the key.
It's the same 3 notes e. C, E, G just in different pitches. If by chance you're actually asking how do six strings sound 'at once' it's because the time between the start of each up or down strum motion is quite quick. Fingerstyle guitarists have it much easier in this regard, since they can pluck not strum only the strings they want.
Of course, this means they can pluck at most five strings - if they want all six then it's back to strumming. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Why do Guitar chords work the way they do compared to a Piano? Ask Question. Asked 3 years, 4 months ago. Active 3 years, 4 months ago. Viewed 13k times. Improve this question. To add to Glorfindel's excellent answer, if you used both hands to play C major, it might make a bit more sense.
With your right hand, play C, E, and G. Then with your left hand, just stretch out and play a C one octave below your right hand with your left thumb, and also the C an octave below that one with your left pinkie finger fifth finger. Then you will be playing five notes on piano but still be playing a C major chord.
Not a full answer, but lots of chords don't end up with all 6 strings strummed. It's very common to only play strings, either by skipping the first string or two on the strum, or by muting some strings with your fingers.
And "power chords" are only 3 strings which isn't technically a full triad, but is arguably still a "chord" — DJMcMayhem. This is because while the chords might stay the same from song to song, the melody can be different, and therefore the songs themselves sound different. Chords are most often the glue that holds the music together. With just two chords, you can literally play or compose thousands of songs. You can do quite a lot with just two chords. With three, the possibilities are exponentially greater.
With four, even more so. Although you can get away with not knowing very many chords, the more you learn, the greater the possibilities are, so you should learn as many as you can.
While it is theoretically possible to learn thousands of chords, there is a natural kind of hierarchy of chords that exists, based on different categories of chords.
While these categories are approximate, they are based on frequency of use and technical requirements, which will allow you to approach chords in a logical, step-wise progression. There is a correlation between how common a chord is, and how easy it is to play, generally speaking. Again, this is a rough way of categorising chords based on frequency and difficulty, but it provides a logical and clear pathway to approaching chord development. Open chords are simply chords that contain at least one open string.
An open string is a string that is played without any notes being fretted on that particular string with the left-hand. They also contain fretted notes, but the inclusion of at least one open string means that they come under the category of open chords.
Open chords are a category of their own, for a few reasons. The fact that they contain open strings is not just an arbitrary distinction. The open strings give the chords a certain resonant quality, which makes them very effective for strumming.
Another reason why open chords get a special mention, is because they are generally easier to play than other chords. Any string that is fretted requires a left-hand finger to do some work to make it sound. When you play an open string, your left hand fingers just need to stay out of the way although sometimes that can be a challenge itself, when trying to fret notes on other strings.
This combination of ease and quality makes open chords an obvious category to start with, when jumping into the world of chords. So how many open chords are there to learn? Technically, any chord that contains an open string is an open chord, therefore there are many theoretical possibilities.
However, there are 15 chords that are used much more often than any others, and have become established as the core group of open chords. The 15 open chords that we use the most and therefore you should set a goal of getting to know these first are the following:.
These 15 chords are the most commonly used open chords that are played on the guitar. If you learn these chords, you will go a long way to being able to play many popular songs. Anytime you want to learn a song that has open chords, you can bet that you will already be familiar with the chords required, if you know the above chords.
How should you go about learning these 15 chords? A good approach is to simply start with three chords and get comfortable moving from one to another. Ideally, you would play songs and exercises that use only the three chords that you are working on. You should spend time getting comfortable with the chords individually, and then practise moving freely from one chord to another, without applying any specific rhythm. Memorising the chords is imperative.
What you can see is a written chord progression, which is simply a series of chords, written in the order that you play them. The second part is a rhythm and strumming guide. Have a listen to the following examples. There are two examples of the chord progression being played.
The first involves strumming each chord of the chord progression four times A four times, D four times, A four times, A four times. The second example is the same chord progression but the rhythm and strumming being used is the one that you see written above. Rhythm and strumming are crucial components of chord playing, but this lesson and series of lessons is focused more on chords themselves — what they are, the order in which they should be learned, the properties of each chord etc.
There is obviously a lot more that could be written about refining technique, changing between chords quickly, strumming patterns and much more. But those things are not the focus of this lesson. I have already written extensively about the fundamentals of playing chords strumming, rhythm, changing etc , so if you are new to chord playing, and would like more lessons on these basic topics, check out the following lessons:. Let's move it down to the A major scale.
We'll start off making the A triad. A is the root note, then we go to the 3 and finally to the 5. Now let's go to the 4 chord and play a triad. The 4 chord in the A scale is D.
I said that very deliberately. This is how musicians talk. In any key will talk about the 1 chord, the 4 chord and the 5 chord. These three chords can be considered the most important chords in any key. When you are making the chords from the A scale that also in the key of A. We'll talk more about that later. In music the numbers are used to indicate the position of the note in the scale and also for the position of a chord in the scale made out of that note.
For example we can say the chord is constructed from the 1— 3— 5. That's referring to the notes that comprise the chord. We can also say the chord progression is a 1— 4— 5 progression.
In music we help clarify the situation by commonly using roman numerals when referring to chords. In this case it would be written I - IV and V. Now let's play the 5 chord… Or rather triad in the key of A. See, that's musician talk. The 5 chord starts with the E note. Then add the 7 note, and then finally the 2 note. I want to just mention now that you can build a triad up every note in the scale but they are not all major triads.
The other triads will be minor except for the one built off the 7th note. Again, it's very important that you don't just understand this intellectually. It must be used by playing it on the guitar, and most importantly in your hearing.
Another way to say that is you need to tie in the ideas with what they sound like until it becomes one thing. Don't worry if it doesn't make complete sense right now. I want to make sure you don't make the mistake I made at first. That is to cram a bunch of theoretical ideas in your head without really applying them to playing and creating music.
For me it created a kind of musical indigestion. I know that must be kind of a strange image but it makes sense to me. If you're a beginner I want you to practice the 1 triad, the 4 triad, and the 5 triad.
Then try moving it around and play it in the key of A starting on the 5th fret. Move it to the G, starting on the 3rd fret. Have some fun with it. Once you start to feel comfortable with the notes try adding a little rhythm to it to create a kind of a lick. Also don't worry too much about the letter names of the notes right now.
That can be useful but it is more confusing right now. Dealing with just the numbers of the scale position will be more important and more helpful in the near future.
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