Four chords, two songs, a start on music theory.
The starting chords for this lesson are C, G, D and F. All, what are called, major chords, which you will find is part of the "circle of fifth's" of our classical music theory. Most classical songs radiate around a 1, 3, 5 structure, in the case of the key of C, this is C, E and G. Don't stress on this, it comes naturally, and is pretty hard to get via an intellectual approach.
The two songs, are the first two songs I learned on guitar, some 50 years ago. They are "House of the Rising Sun" (Am, C, D, F with E and Em) and Jamaica Farewell. (G, C and D)
The open notes of a guitar are E, A, D, G, B and E. When you play the G major chord, you depress 3 strings, the first (E), second (A) and sixth (E). So the first string becomes a G, the second, a C, the third remains D, G and B with the E becoming a G. G major is as 1, 3 5, G, B and D. The C chord has depressed frets on 2, 3 and 5, leaving E, G and E, and replacing the three with C, E and C, again all in the C, E, G major key. Finally D (D, F, A) has E, A, D remain and 4,5,6 become A, D and either an E or an F#.
The signatures, that I get with my ultimate guitar app, use the visual string pattern of the guitar, with black dot's representing where the strings are depressed.
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