You have to practice your chords!

Training your ears to recognize them.

I get asked all the time, "How do you hear the chords so quickly?" The simplest, most basic answer I can come up with is, "I was able to train my ears at a young age - to hear chords simply because I had no other way of learning my favorite songs." When I was learning how to play the guitar as a teenager in the 1970's, the internet didn't exist, and nei…