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There are many chords for the Electric Guitar. They are the same chords as for the acoustic guitar. For how to play them, you should buy a chord book (cheap) or look it up on the internet. But I will go through a few different types ...

First position chords are played with your left hand near the head of the guitar. They use very different "shapes" or finger positions, and some of them are quite tricky. For this reason, I just stick to the common/easy ones, namely; A (major), A minor, C, D, D minor, E, E minor, G.

If you want, you can use these same finger positions to play lower chords (by altering the tuning of your guitar), or higher chords (by putting a capo on your guitar frets). For example if you tune down a step (lower the pitch of each string by one whole note), the E chord becomes a D, A becomes G, D becomes C, and so on.

Bar chords use a few standard shapes that you move up and down the guitar neck to change the chord. I use bar chords to play; F, F minor, G minor, B minor, C minor, and things like F#, C# minor. You can also use them instead of first position chords if it's easier or you prefer the sound (it does sound a little different).

As you can see, I usually stick to major and minor chords, but there are many other types (sevenths etc.) that you can play using either first position or bar chords.

Power chords are truncated or simplified bar chords. They have a very easy shape that can be moved around the guitar neck. You can play power chords on just 2 or 3 strings, but sometimes 4 works also. Power chords are very popular in punk music, because although they don't have the same "full sound" as other chords, once you put heavy distortion on your guitar you can hardly notice.

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