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The most basic analysis of reggae is this: the bassline is prominent, slightly weighted towards the third beat of each bar. some other mid-to-high range instrument plays staccato chords on the second … I suspect when your friends say "reggae chords" they are referring to the skank. …

Chorderator lets you look up chord shapes by name, names by shape, and scales, in any tuning. http://www.chorderator.com

The simple guitar chords a beginner learns are in a variety of inversions, so that level of interest is added "automatically" to a beginner's guitar playing. … In addition, some songs are driven by their chord progression, so you can get away with block chords without it sounding boring. …

If you know the names of which notes you're playing, you can reason about how the chords are constructed. … Using a combination of all of the above, you can modify chords you know, to create new chords. …

It can result in some full, complex chords. … Most guitar parts more sophisticated than strum-the-chords, involve playing chords of fewer than 6 notes, most of the time. There are lots of ways you can construct 2-3 note chords. …

As @NReilingh says, it's probably a Japanese alternative to "slash notation". "C/B" for example -- often read aloud as "C over B" means a C chord played over a prominent B bass note. The easy way to …

Repeat this with all the other triads, and you'll find that C,F,G are major chords, and that D,E,A are minor chords. B is special. … As you keep moving your hand to the right, the notes below each finger go up at different rates, causing you to sometimes play major chords and sometimes play minor chords. …

Numbers higher that 8 are used when an additional note is added above the normal notes of the chord. So C-D-E-G is Cadd2, because it's a C chord (C-E-G) with a 2nd added in. C-E-G-D is Cadd9, becaus …

It sounds like the shape you're asking to avoid is this one: .. in which the index finger is a bit sketchy, but frets strings 1, 5, 6. Meanwhile the ring finger barres 2,3,4. Instead of using one …

Later on, you may encounter a chord that really is one barre across all 6 strings -- but by then you would expect to have gained finger strength and flexibility from playing "normal" barre chords a lot …

You're right that the same melody can be played over a variety of different chord sequences, and that the choice of chords will have a marked effect on how the piece sounds. … One of the modern jazz performers' favourite tricks is to take a well known melody and accompany it with unexpected (yet still musically pleasing) chords. …

With experience and practice, you won't think about the order in which you place fingers for a chord like this. You'd place all your fingers at the same time. In the meantime, I would tend towards 1- …

At what stage do we need to use other chords, like ii, iii, vi, or viii? To cut through the academia: we need to use other chords when they make the sound we want to hear. … You can change how a melody is perceived by changing the chords below it. …

The important thing is that generally a scale is restricted to 7 notes from the 12 available, and if you play triads from that palette of 7, you'll find that a mixture of major and minor chords "automatically …

Transposing slash chords is no different from transposing any other piece of music. All the notes go up or down by the same interval. …