The A chord sounds somber, even sad, whereas the C chord is cheerful. If you’ve been playing along (and I hope you have, as this is the best way of learning guitar chords) you may have noticed that the A and the C chords we constructed above sound markedly different. This time our 1, 3, and 5, are C, E, and G respectively. Lets look at building another chord in A minor. Just make sure that the deepest sounding note is the root, and you’ll be good to go. That’s all there is to making a basic chord! Now of course, your guitar has more than three strings, so you’ll usually need to double up a few notes. To form the chord, we play the notes labeled “1”, “3”, and “5” in the case of our A minor chord, these are A, C, and E. If we’re making an A chord in our chosen key of A minor, it looks like this: We start by labelling the root “1”, and count up from it until all the members of the key have a number (we may need to loop around). Now that we’ve established our key, we’re ready to make some chords! Each chord has a “root” note which gives the chord its name. For simplicity’s sake, we’ll look at the key starting with A and containing no sharps or flats this key is known as “A minor”. Though there are twelve notes available, any given song will stick – for the most part – to a set of seven notes that form the “key” of the song.
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