- Uhhhhhhh... how many chords does the average guitarist know? Would a pro know all of the "several thousand" in this big book of mine? How many chords does Jimmy Page know? John Scofield? I've asked many people in the past and nobody's ever given me a straight answer.
- My fingers are physically incapable of doing 66% of the chords in this book. What kind of mutant alien can even do half of these? I'm going through the book... and if I'm able to do a chord easily enough, I write an X with a circle around it next to the chord. If I might be able to do it well enough after months of finger-contortion isometrics or whatever... I draw a little spiral. I leave the ones I just can't do blank.
- I'm also figuring I should invest in a good capo because there's hundreds of chords that involve barring all six strings on the first fret, and more than a few where the second or third are barred.
- With the chords I actually can do... I give each one a rating of 1 through 5 (5 being the highest) in terms of how much I dig the sound of it. I have a pretty good ear (natural, not trained) and know what sounds good to me. Of course, I lean towards the bizarre/evil/dissonant... so.... :D
- The vast majority of the chords in this book involve between 4 and 6 strings. What happened to all the two and three string chords? I thought that 2-3 strings was the bread-and-butter of basic rhythm guitar.
- What am I missing here?
- I'm finding I prefer lead guitar more and more, as if I didn't already. But I want to learn rhythm as much as I can because I want to get into home recording and do it all myself. I can say that I'm proficient/exceptional on bass (I am, above all else, a bassist), and I would program the drums rather than trying to bang it out myself... just wanna get the guitar aspects up to snuff.
