Chords You've no doubt heard, with trepidation, about the thousands of chords you must learn in order to play music. Well, you can relax.
Chords are no big deal.
Keep in mind that you don't need to know any of the theory behind chords in order to play. You can simply skip the next section and go straight to the chord diagrams page and start to experiment. I will explain in my own plain English way the basic structure of music, and hopefully you'll be able to understand. Any three alternate notes. So the major scale, using this simple recipe, yields seven chords.