youwinagain09 asked:
So I have an acoustic guitar laying around the house in perfect condition and I want to learn to play it. I already know how to play the trombone so I can read notes.
So I have an acoustic guitar laying around the house in perfect condition and I want to learn to play it. I already know how to play the trombone so I can read notes.
Is there a difference between a chord and note on the guitar? For instance the chord g and note g?
Is it hard to get your fingers on the right chord and fret in time to play the note?
When you play a note, do you strum all the strings or is there certain strings you play for a certain note?
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1 grayscale // Sep 17, 2008 at 10:33 pm
The note G is the same note on the guitar played on a single string on different positions on the guitar.
Chords however, are a group of notes built in 3rds. The chord G that you speak of would be the notes G,B,D played or struck in unison or played together at the same time.
The difference between the guitar vs the trombone is that the guitar provides the flexibility to play more then one note at one time. The trombone can only play a single note at one time. To get the chord or to simulate the chord G that you speak of would require three trombones playing the notes G, B and D creating the G chord.
When playing a note you strike one string.
Playing a chord, you strum the guitar.
Good luck on playing your guitar.
Hopefully this wasn’t too confusing.
2 mrm // Sep 21, 2008 at 3:27 am
The first answerer has said everything correctly. The problem that you are having which gives rise to your questions, is the fact that a trombone is strictly a one note at a time instrument. There is no such thing as a chord (generally thought of as a triad—three notes played simultaneously) on a horn. Also, the trombone is a bass clef instrument, on the guitar you will be dealing also with the treble clef.
So, when you play melodic lines on a guitar (“leads”). you are picking one note at a time. When you are playing “rhythym” (chords) you are playing multiple strings at a time—-and there are many standard fingering formations for that. While the majority of chords are really comprised of three notes, the guitar is such that some of those notes can be doubled, or octaved so that you can play all six strings to make a nice full sounding chord. To use your example, a 6 string G chord, starting at the bass end, would be g,b,d,g,b,g—the top and bottom “g”s being on the third fret of the top and bottom strings. The first “b” being on the second fret, fifth string, and the next three being unfretted (open). Get it?
3 Earl D // Sep 23, 2008 at 12:16 am
notes are played one by one. Chords are made by pressing on many strings and frets at the same time.
A G note can be made on a dozen places and a G chords made on maybe 5 places.
The guitar is tuned, basically to Em7sus4
Get a tuner and get a book of songs you like with guitar chord charts over each measure and learn how to form the chords.
4 JJ // Sep 24, 2008 at 7:52 pm
there are many ways in playing the guitar. one is reading notes and it is not actually NOTES because you read this TABLETURE and there you’ll see where your fingers should be placed. you can find “TABS” from
you search the song you want then click the one that is classified as “tab” or “guitar”.. this the advanced one.
second is by CHORDS. note is different from a chord. chord are three or more notes played together. note, e.g. “G” is played only on a string. (to play G, you pluck the 3rd string nearest to the floor.)
when playing a chord, sometimes you need to strum all strings (like in the case of the chord E) but some, you need to start strumming from the BASE of the chord, downwards.
or you could go for a guitar lesson for you to know how to play guitar. or you could google search this CHORD CHART. here, you’ll learn how to play chords. (this is the basic one)
hope this helps…