Here’s an f minor 9th chord:

Read chords. Here’s what an em chord looks like on a real guitar: How to read chord charts. When learning how to read guitar sheet music, there are three major types of ‘sheet music’ to consider.

This means that you will be playing the root, third, fifth, seventh, etc. As you progress beyond open chords (chords with notes on open strings), you will encounter chords with notes above the fifth fret. Oh, trying hard to change and can't let it go.

Barre chords allow you to play many, many chords that you can't play as open chords. When the third is in the major position, it means it’s generally above the minor third note. For example, the root of a c chord is the note c.

Find the 2nd fret of the d string. It makes it super easy to play even exotic sounding chords like “c#m7” or “dbmaj7”. Guitarists generally refer to them by the following names:

Find the 2nd fret of the a string. You can think of chords as being stacks of thirds. As you read and play the tabs from left to right, you begin to string together the song (pun intended).

The capital letter on the left tells you the chord root. Major chords sound much more uplifting and positive. I can't read your mind [verse 2] dm7 tell me what's gonna happen when it's you and me in a room cmaj7 but you know you can't have it?