Lets begin from the string numbering.

The top string in your guitar is the 6th string, and as it goes down it goes down 5th, 4th, 3rd, 2nd and 1st.

How to understand a chord chart. The string numbering is as below.

Then you need to understand how to read the chord charts.

The • in the strings means that you should hold that point of the guitar. You only press on the bolded dots.

If there is number on the horizontal bar, it shows the fret of the guitar. Fret is the bars in the guitar.

Let's try one of the major chord

Place your fingers correctly and play each sting and make sure all the sound is good. Then play all the strings together. This will give the sound of the chord you are playing.

This is just the basic of how to understand the chord charts. You have to go one by one on the other chord charts to play.

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