Guitar Chords for everyone!

Many folks today are being exposed to Guitar Chords.

Thus this post.

Guitarists have this problem due to way a guitar is tuned. The problem is that they consider a "power chord" to actually be a chord when the rest of the music world thinks that it takes three notes to be a chord. Guitarists would say two notes only. HOWEVER, they have invented a notation that shows "power chords" G5 or A5 means the note given in the chord plus the fifth of the Major Scale, so G5 translates to the notes G + D while A5 is A + E. Hey, you would have to know the Major Scales to figure that out, right?

In addition to knowing the major scales, I would suggest that keyboardists insert the third whenever the guitarist plays a power chord. Now it just possible that this will sound lousy, and if that is the case then don't do it. I have had good luck with this approach, in fact I try my hardest to add those missing notes the guitarists don't play whenever I can. It's a general thing that good keyboard players do.

Another thing that guitarists really like is "suspended chords." There are two kinds 1. Suspended fourths (the most common kind - so much so that if you see a chord notated like this: Dsus it is a suspended fourth), and , 2. Suspended seconds (less common, in fact to notate one on have to specify it, like this D2) Both of these types are triads: 1. has the formula 1+4+5 and two has the formula 1+2+5. Now these can sound great on guitar but lousy on a keyboard, especially that Sus 2  chord.
What to do? You can invert the chord, if you know how to do that, so that those notes don't sound so bad. Or you can chose to play them with two hands.

Either way the secret is not play the notes so close together.

Have other challenges? Leave a comment on what they are and  I will help you.