Basic Guitar Chord ChartsBasic guitar chord charts is the easiest way to get started playing accompaniment to million songs for both electric and acoustic guitar. Generally these chords are played with clean, undistorted sound, because distortion effect will make to much dirt. For distorted guitar, check out Power Chord Chart.Take your time mastering these easy guitar chords below and you’ll be able to pick up accompaniment by ear to a lot of tunes without much of effort ;) Free Printable Guitar Chord Chart for Beginners click here to download PDF file or here to open online version for printing. 
Note that to play the F major chord you need to press both the 1st and 2nd string with your index finger. In order to do so lean the finger in a way that it press' the string with its phalange and not with a fingertip as usual. For fun, I've arranged first three rows of the chart in the way that each of them creates a chord progression that you can play straightforward from left to right, Whenever you need to write down your chord ideas you can use
Check out the videos below on how to play a few basic open chords. The chords she is playing at the scene 1 - "Open Chords Introduction" are the Em and G. And the C - G - Fadd9 chord progression at the 2nd scene - "More Chords". I will introduce more guitar chords for beginners on the guitar chord progressions page.
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• Basic Chord Chart
A Guitar Chord Diagram
The black circles in the chord diagrams indicate what strings and at which frets you need to press them with your fretting fingers.
The numbers inside the black circles indicate recommended, comfortable fingering for pressing these strings.
The "X" symbol on the top of a diagram above the certain strings means you should skip playing these string.
The "O" symbol represents an open string. You don't press the open strings with your fretting fingers, while you need to pick or strum them along with the pressed ones.