The 7 Chords You NEED To Know - Beginner Chords For Acoustic Guitar

Beginner Chords For Acoustic Guitar - The 7 Chords You NEED to know as a beginner guitar player. In this video, I will be going over the 7 Guitar Chords that you absolutely need to know as a beginner guitar player. We will be going over all open chord including the A chord, Am chord, C chord, D chord, Dm chord, E chord, Em chord, G chord and the Fmaj7 chord, which is my simple fix for barre chords.
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These simple guitar chords can be used in songs. By learning these 7 beginner acoustic guitar chords, you will be able to play chords that sound good together for songs.
Beginner Acoustic Guitar Chords Chapters:
0:00 Intro & Background
1:07 - E minor guitar chord
2:05 - G major guitar chord
3:27 - C major guitar chord
5:04 - D major guitar chord
6:54 - A minor guitar chord
7:40 - E Major guitar chord
8:51 - A Major guitar chord
11:14 - D Minor guitar chord
12:38 - Fmaj7 guitar chord
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Thanks Lauren, this chord transition, yes this pivoting makes sense to me now, I am working on My Sweet Lord with its new to me chords, I realised only last night that I needed something to smooth the transition, various version of the next played chord that closely matches the previous finger positions. you are the best thanks.

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