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Basic Guitar Chord Chart Explanations: Inversions of the 4 Triad Types, and the 5 Basic 7th ChordsThese guitar chord charts are a good way of starting out with harmony and chords on the guitar fretboard. Guitar chord diagrams show you how to play guitar chords in a simple, straight forward manner. However, by and of themselves, they won't give you an in-depth understanding of all the relationships between the chord types, between chords and scales, or of the fretboard. The four basic types of triads (three part chords) are: major triads, minor triads, diminished triads, and augmented triads. The five basic types of 7th chords (4 part chords) are: M7 chords, m7 chords, 7 ("dominant") chords, b5m7 (half-diminished) chords, and Dim7 (Diminished) Chords. They are all built by stacking 3ds, whether major (M) or minor (m), up from the root. Another way of subdividing these chords is into diatonic and symmetrical chords. Diatonic chords occur naturally on the diatonic major scale and its modes. Symmetrical chords do not: Augmented Triads, and Diminished 7th Chords. This introduces the topic of symmetrical subdivisions of the octave, which is a lot more advanced and modern that what we are looking at now: we'll look into it in due time. Other than that, guitar chord diagrams should be self-explanatory. Although chord diagrams such as these are very useful to start visualizing the patterns on the fretboard, the best thing to do is to drop them as soon as possible, since they are quite limiting. These articles will provide greater insight into the chords and harmony applied to the guitar: watch out for updates, as this guitar chords section is being built.
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