Uploaded August 2024 | Updated September 2026, 57 minutes ago

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Part 2 of a 3-part (for now) YouTube series, designed for guitarists who want to get their feet wet with the basics of music theory. This part covers how chords are formed, what different types of chords we have, what all those numbers and funny abbreviations mean in chord names. Let's be honest...guitarists probably spend 80% or more of their time playing chords. With a little knowledge of chord theory, you'll be able to vastly expand your palette of chords.

Links to the series:
Part 1: youtu.be/E2ardSxEB24
Part 2: youtu.be/dIy7lKfMRGQ
Part 3: youtu.be/ZY8-xJXntqE

Here are links to some free PDFs that will be helpful:
highcountryguitar.com/pdfs-for-download

Hit up highcountryguitar.com for the rest of this series, and a mountain of other free resources for improvising guitarists. Lots of material for Grateful Dead & Phish fans too.

NOW INTRODUCING the Base Camp guitar course, a complete course designed for late beginning to intermediate players who want to solidify their knowledge of the fretboard so they can be free to play and create in any musical context. Available at highcountryguitar.com