What are the Variations of an acoustic guitar?

Variations of a C chord on a acoustic Guitar ..?

• Im practicing and teaching myself via some solid Youtube videos and websites and couple people i know...Today i saw a variation of a c chord that was basically a g chord you just drop your 1st an 2nd finger down 1 string. Is this something that will get me into trouble later? is this a c major? the other c major with the 2nd string 1st fret 4th string 2nd fret an 5th string 3rd fret is so hard to reach ,i am practicing not muting strings but just wanted to know if it was the same C ?

• Answer:

  Most chords are formed by combining 3 or 4 notes according to certain rules. A "C major" chord only has 3 notes: C E G. To utilize all 6 strings of the guitar, some of those notes just get repeated. Additionally, as you might notice, those 3 notes can be found in multiple places on the fretboard. All you have to do is play any 3 of them and you have a C chord. If you start with a G chord 3-2-0-0-0-3 and move the two lowest fingers over one string, you'll be playing E-C-E-G-B-E (0-3-2-0-0-3) You can see that as long as you don't strike the 2nd string, you'll have all the notes that make up a C major chord. There's nothing wrong with playing other forms of chords...just as long as you aren't using them as a way to avoid playing full chords. In your case, that sounds like what you're doing. The open C chord is pretty basic, and even a person with tiny hands should be able to play it. I hope you'll continue to practice this and all the other open chords in their most common fingerings. I have a video that shows some chord transitions, including the G-C change that you're talking about: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cetrqYqQ470&context=C303b18dADOEgsToPDskJE8PjtJxOfcxOyLPOyEydH Hope this helps.