MICHAEL PLUNKETT: This is Michael Plunkett
on behalf of Expert Village. Now, we're going
to take a look at how we read the strings
on our chord chart. This is the basic chart
that teaches us how to read different chords
for the guitar, and if you look at it, it's
basically--it's a grid pattern. The simplest
way to think of it is to just hold your guitar
up to it, kinda next to it like that, and
it basically represents this. So, the first
thing that we're going to look at are the
strings which are the six vertical lines.
Now, there's two ways that we can describe
these strings. First, we can use numbers.
We start with one and we go up to six.
And so, if we were coming back to the guitar,
one would be our highest string, the highest
pitch, and six would be our lowest string,
the lowest pitch. So, we'll think of it like
that. Also, if you're familiar with the string
names of the guitar, you would also often
here them referred to as that. In which case,
we would have E, A, D, G, B, and on this high
one, I'm going to write a lower case e; this
is because both of these are the same note,
E, and so we want to differentiate between
the two so they call this high E. You could
also see somebody write "High" above it. So,
that's how we look at this string pattern
for this chord setup.
