By far the best way to find any and all information about guitars on the internet is to click the image to the left. There are 200 great sites all listed by popularity. Get my articles delivered right to your inbox. The open chords Chords are the most important thing to concentrate on. It's much more important to know the chord than the note.
Chords set the rules.
There are several qualities we can ascribe to chords. The two main qualities are Major and minor. Here are the open chords, so called I guess because they take advantage of the open strings. So you could say that minor chords are really just majors with a flat III . The difference in sound is drastic.