How many songs can you play all the way through?
Maybe you need to expand your chord vocabulary.
It seems so simple, right? Pick up a guitar, learn a few chords, learn a few songs, have a good time. Then, you find out that the three or four chords you learned, just aren't enough to play other songs. So, what do you do? You learn more chords. You learn more songs with more chords, and the cycle continues. Something begins to happen after a while. You realize that unless the chords are written out right in front of you, you struggle to remember all of their names and shapes. Major chords, minor chords, seventh chords, and weird chords with weird names. How are you supposed to remember all of them?
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