F# Guitar Chord

In this video lesson you will learn to play an F# guitar chord. The notes in this major chord are F# – root note, C# – perfect 5th, and A# – major 3rd. Check it out:

An F# guitar chord must always be played as a bar chord shape since there are no open strings that contain the notes we need for this chord. First you will learn a simple F#5 power-chord, beginning at the second fret of the E string (an F# note). Next, a fully barred F# major chord is demonstrated for you, with all the note locations explained:

F# guitar chord

Make sure you can hear each note ring out separately before you give it a strum. The next version of F# you learn is another barre chord, this time with an A string root note. On the 9th fret of A there is another F# note, and when you plays this along with the eleventh frets of D, G, and B, you get another F# major chord. This lesson concludes by showing you a “D-shaped” version of this F# chord, which is played only on the G, B and e strings.

G Guitar Chord

The G major guitar chord is one of the most lush and full sounding chords you can play on your guitar due to the fact that there are up to three open strings ringing out when you play it at the open position. G major chords are made up from the notes G (root note), B (major 3rd) and D (perfect 5th). Watch this video for how to play a G major chord:

As you will see in this video, there are several options for holding a G major guitar chord:

G major chord

Using the pinky instead of the ring finger on high e string:

G chord variation

Including the third fret of B (a D note) instead of open B:

G guitar chord

Try all of these variations to see which ones feel the best to hold for you and to discover what chord sounds the best to you. After this we move on to a G major barre chord, beginning at the third fret of the E string just like the open chord version.

G major barre chord diagram:

G guitar chord

Now after you learn this barre chord we take a look at the other one, which begins at the 10th fret of the A string. This lesson then shows you a “D-shaped” G major chord that is played on the G B and e strings only. This lesson finishes with showing you how to play the intro melody to this guitar chord lesson.

The melody simply plays the notes of a G major (Ionian) scale against a repeating open G string. The notes in the scale are G A B C D E F#, but we are starting at a G note and going backwards when playing this little melody.

G major intro melody guitar TAB:

G melody guitar TAB
This melody sounds great, especially when it ends with a full open G major chord. Take it slow at first until you have the picking clean, and make sure to let that open G string ring out nice and clear the whole time as it adds a nice contrast to the G major scale notes!