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Getting familiar with your instrument

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Neck

Body

Frets

Tuners

Headstock

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Body

How to read a chord diagram

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Frets

Fingers

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this is called the treble cleff

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this is a staff

Lines

! Everynotes on the Guitar low to high

Eat - 6th stringA - 5th strinfDarn- 4th stringGood - 3rd string

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1st String notes

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2nd String notes

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3rd String notes

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4th String notes

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5th String notes

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6th String notes

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essential chords!

2 3 1

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3 2 4

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Essential chordsThe next page contains 14 chords that will appear on the chord charton the following page.

These chords are the most basic that would be found in most guitar music. Well call them the Cowboy Chords for now.

You can organize the chords that sound good together. These groups

are called Keys. You have rows that go let to right. The letter in the Icolumn is the is the name of that key

This row

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I ii iii IV V vi

C Dm Em F G Am

G Am Bm C D Em

D Em F#m G A Bm

A Bm C#m D E F#m

E F#m G#m A B C#m