the first chord you played on your guitar

Subject: RE: the first chord you played on your guitar
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 28 Sep 01 - 08:05 AM

singing is better if you're playing

Very questionable. It can be easier, but unless a very good guitarist is involved, good songs sung right sound a lot better without a guitar playing along.

Subject: RE: the first chord you played on your guitar
From: dorareever
Date: 28 Sep 01 - 07:25 AM

First chord? E minor,then A minor (guess I like minor :)) I'm not a good guitarist myself-I still can't do a LOT of chords;I'm a very "primitive" guitar player but I don't care since I don't want to be a guitarist,it's just that singing is better if you're playing too-I want someone else to play guitar for me but people I've found until now,all more talented than me,couldn't keep my rhytm which variates a lot in the same song.When you don't know many chords you have to put your fantasy elsewhere...so I "play" with rhytms,tempos etc---

Subject: RE: the first chord you played on your guitar
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 28 Sep 01 - 06:36 AM

Well, the open strings with ordinary tuning gives A11 according to The Guitar Handbook (Ralph Denyer / Isaac Guillory / Alastair M. Crawford), which is pretty reliable on such things.

Subject: RE: the first chord you played on your guitar
From: The_one_and_only_Dai
Date: 28 Sep 01 - 05:20 AM

G7, C and D - from Bert Weedon's 'Play in a Day'. I couldn't, incidentally.

Subject: RE: the first chord you played on your guitar
From: GUEST,Ace
Date: 28 Sep 01 - 05:18 AM

The cheater's G, followed by D and A7. I had (and still have) a great songbook with such greats as Running Bear and Leavin' on a Jet Plane, and the most complicated chord was a 4 string F (which I avoided like the plague and still do - strangely I find an F bar chord much easier to play...).

Subject: RE: the first chord you played on your guita
From:
Date: 28 Sep 01 - 04:22 AM

Mine was "D", that funky beginning to "Crazy Lil' Thng Called Love". And mostly in "D" I remain!

Paul

Subject: RE: the first chord you played on your guita
From: BlueJay
Date: 28 Sep 01 - 03:55 AM

Other than the previously debated open strum, my first successful chord was the E minor. So much less intimidating than that pesky A major, which requires a third finger on the second fret. Oddly, even though I'm not big on the blues, I still return to the Em from time to time. Having reconciled my problem, I can now proudly admit that I play Em first position. Sometimes, less is more. (: BlueJay

Subject: RE: the first chord you played on your guita
From: mooman
Date: 28 Sep 01 - 03:19 AM

E

Guess I'm just the blue type!

mooman

Subject: RE: the first chord you played on your guita
From: Bert
Date: 27 Sep 01 - 11:02 PM

A

Subject: RE: the first chord you played on your guita
From: DancingMom
Date: 27 Sep 01 - 10:30 PM

It was a C major. But I found out quickly that I can't sing in C.

Subject: RE: the first chord you played on your guita
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 27 Sep 01 - 10:10 PM

First chords I ever tried were G C & F first chords I ever played were Em and A, I can play all five now and then some.

Subject: RE: the first chord you played on your guita
From: Troll
Date: 27 Sep 01 - 10:10 PM

G chord, then C and then D.
I was a 12-year old kid living on the military post in Dachau, Germany. Yes. that Dachau. There was a Msgt. in Special Services named Agee Burns living on the post. He had a band called Pappy Burns and the Tune Twisters. They played all over Europe and had a show on Armed Forces Radio as well. He played Bass in the band but could play all the strings.
I was hot to learn the guitar and he agreed to teach me but he said that if I got caught up in music, I'd never be worth a damn for anything else.
He was right.
BTW, he had a brother in the music business who played mandolin. His name was Jethro.

troll

Subject: RE: the first chord you played on your guita
From: Mudlark
Date: 27 Sep 01 - 09:53 PM

A cheater's G.....and I play it still.

Subject: RE: the first chord you played on your guita
From: sophocleese
Date: 27 Sep 01 - 09:50 PM

Em. I like sad songs. The joy when I realized that I could finally move easily between Em and D.

Subject: RE: the first chord you played on your guita
From: Bill D
Date: 27 Sep 01 - 08:42 PM

a barred F..(talk about a sense of HUMOR by a guy)..it's also the last one I played...took up the autoharp..

Subject: RE: the first chord you played on your guita
From: Philibuster
Date: 27 Sep 01 - 08:34 PM

McGrath, isn't it Em 7/11 (E root, B 3rd, G 5th, D 7th, A 11th)? You could also write it A11/9 no3, but just A11 is fingers down on the second fret of the G and B strings.

A11 might be a fun tuning to try though...

"E,A,C#,D,A,E" Would be about right. If you like it more open "E,A,D,A,C#,E". And mebbe a bassy one "C#,E,A,D,A,E").

Anyways, back on topic, Em.

Subject: RE: the first chord you played on your guita
From: SINSULL
Date: 27 Sep 01 - 07:54 PM

C followed by F. My teacher had a sense of humor.

Subject: RE: the first chord you played on your guita
From: wysiwyg
Date: 27 Sep 01 - 07:35 PM

I recall our elementary school renting 40-50 guitars for a few days, so we could all play Down in the Valley for a concert. Ouch! So I guess it was G. Imagine us all strumming woodenly in unison.... and trying to sing and play at the same time.... and some of us wishing we could take them home to play with on our own. I think we were in about 5th or 6th grade.

~S~

Subject: RE: the first chord you played on your guita
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 27 Sep 01 - 07:29 PM

Probably a 4 string open G, or maybe a C or a D7. I had played my brother's toy ukele before ever trying a guitar and was able to strum along on 4 strings on first time I touched a guitar.

Jon

Subject: RE: the first chord you played on your guita
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 27 Sep 01 - 07:24 PM

A11th - its the chord you play with standard tuning if you don't fret any of the strings.

Subject: the first chord you played on your guita
From: 53
Date: 27 Sep 01 - 07:21 PM

how many of you can remember the very first chord that you ever played on your guitar? i can, can you? bob.