Originally Posted by: GuitarPsyother then that I did what Neal Walter is using for chords, you've got the three open chords that, combined with barre chords, can make most chords on your fretboard, inversions excluded of course.

That is the normal pattern of learning: first easy open chords, then barre chords. However, if you look at the chord tones (1-3-5) in any of those, especially barre chords, then inversions become much easier & immediately more practical. :)

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