Get your Hendrix inspired twang going with these double stop licks!

When we refer to open chords, we usually thinks to the basic positions played by beginners on the first three frets, to start learning guitars. They are a mixture of fretted notes and open notes, that's way open chords. The same concept can be applied to any chords creatively, building beautiful sounding new shapes.

This is the place for all you beginning guitarists to get started on your journey to great guitar playing. To start off with, we are going to learn a few open chords in the key of E major.

E is a popular key and it uses the lowest E note available on a standard tuned guitar, and is a powerful Rock and Blues key standard.

Major 7th voicings and the Major scale at the same time.

Let's discuss major triads. Playing with interval triads will allow you to build melodic improvisations easily.Make sure you memorize the different positions exposed in the licks and go from there.

An arrangement of the previous chord melody lesson. All this lesson is about some kind of replacement and embellishment of the chords.

The different positions of C and G major, and a new way of learning the chords!

Short classical guitar piece by M. Giuliani. With explanation on interpretation of slurs.