What are some of the basic guitar chords?
Learn your major and minor chords. Those are basic triads. Also learn your 5 chords, the ones that say D5 or E5. Those are basic power chords. Found in a lot of punk songs, alternative, and some rock songs. After that, start learning chord chemistry and music theory. You don’t want to memorize a hundred different chord formations. If you learn music theory, then you can build your own chords and figure out how to play chords that you see. Like Cadd9. That is a C Major add the 9th note. Which means C Major Triad: C, E, G, and add the 9th note which is D. So C,E,G,D would be a Cadd9 chord. http://www.e-chords.
