Guitars are one of the few musical instruments with which even less gifted contemporaries can quickly enjoy their own sense of achievement.
Anyone can remember a few chords - and with a repertoire of five to six chords, the majority of popular hits can be accompanied - and, unlike with the recorder, the player can sing along himself.
If you want to deal with the theory of harmony of cool string playing more systematically, you will find an excellent tool at https://chordbook.com/guitar-chords/.
You see the fretboard of a guitar and next to it two charts.
The first "Select Root" contains the pure chords for all twelve semitones of the scale including the enharmonic confusion.
The second table "Select Type" offers access to the corresponding variants of the root key, i.e. major or minor, but also typical representatives such as dominant seventh or sixth fifth chords.
Just click any colored buttons you like, then click the pick labeled "Strum."
The set chord is already played, and at the same time you can see from the colored discs on the fretboard where you have to press which finger to create that chord on a guitar.
But you can also go a different way and move said discs with the mouse pointer.
You can create your own chords this way.
Now our question for this week:
What do you call a stringed instrument tuning in which the strings that are not fingered form a "working" chord?
Please send your solution proposal to netzraetsel@faz.de.
The closing date for entries is March 16, 2022, 9 p.m.
The answer to last week's puzzle was "Need for Speed Burning Asphalt", the winner will be notified in writing.