{"id":947,"date":"2014-07-12T01:00:08","date_gmt":"2014-07-12T08:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/classicalguitarshed.foureyes.com\/?p=947"},"modified":"2024-09-04T01:37:43","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T08:37:43","slug":"chord-tab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalguitarshed.com\/chord-tab\/","title":{"rendered":"Chord TABs: Learn Classical Guitar Pieces Faster with this Secret Code"},"content":{"rendered":"

Much of learning guitar pieces is pattern recognition.\u00a0 We can learn to see, for example, a C chord in the music or in our hand on the guitar neck.\u00a0 The more of these patterns we can find, the easier it becomes to memorize and play guitar music.<\/p>\n

But sometimes, we don’t know the chord.\u00a0 And more, it may be unlike any other chord we know.\u00a0 It may be high on the neck or use open strings in an unusual way.<\/p>\n

For these confusing times, it helps to have a special trick you can use to remember the new patterns.\u00a0 And this is just what you’ll find below.<\/p>\n

Codifying Classical Guitar Music<\/h2>\n

In our music, it can be convenient to use a type of “shorthand” to jot down the left-hand pattern.<\/p>\n

Often, the left hand is playing a combination of notes that resemble a chord. We may not know what chord it is, but each finger is on a different string. So we could think of it as a chord or chord “shape”.<\/p>\n

On the page, the music may look like a sea of notes. Thousands of black dots fill the page. A shorthand can help us to simplify the left-hand shapes so we learn them more easily.<\/p>\n

We can use numbers to notate the left-hand finger positions on the neck.<\/p>\n

This is very easy and simple to use. Of course, we could use other devices (such as theoretical analysis) as well. But this “code” is a great tool that requires no other knowledge.<\/p>\n

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This chord could be
written “XXO231”.<\/p><\/div>\n

Your Secret Decoder Ring:<\/h2>\n

In the “code”, there are six characters. From left to right, they represent the strings (low E on the left to high E on the right).<\/p>\n