Easy question abt guitar music?

Question:when i want to compose a music on the guitar (not a song with lyrics and stuff)

Do i necessarily have to choose chords and put them together? and then choose a picking rhthym from there on and such and make it my own?

Do i have to add other notes to the chords in between or what?

i havent been getting the responses i wanted, so if uve answered this, once again ignore it

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: when i want to compose a music on the guitar (not a song with lyrics and stuff)

Do i necessarily have to choose chords and put them together? and then choose a picking rhthym from there on and such and make it my own?

Do i have to add other notes to the chords in between or what?

i havent been getting the responses i wanted, so if uve answered this, once again ignore it

If youre writing your own song, really, anything goes. There are certain chord progressions that naturally go together. In any piece of guitar music, there is a chord progression. It is the chords you play and in the order you play them. You may have a song though that is just a melody, which would just be one note at a time. You can put these together, a melody on top of a chord progression. And you'll need to choose a time signature, like 4/4, which will help determine your picking rhythm. Look at some existing music and see how it is laid out. Good luck!

Look into something called (I think) a chord wheel/chord chart. They give you good chord combinations to use.

I usually just strum out a few chords and if they sound good together, that's it.

you technically don't need to know anything about chords or anything like that to write music on guitar. but it can help you out and make things easier. what you want to do is to play the major scale for the key of your favorites with those songs, and learn the chords of the songs with them. that way you will learn alot about sounds and you can choose whichever you want. a chord alone is pretty meaningless you need to put in the key for it to make sense.

you don't need to play full chords, you may want to play sometimes only 2 notes at once, or only one. you should think of what you want to hear and figure out how to play it rather than try to figure out what to play so it will be something you like.

you don't have to do anything in music, you can play strictly chordfs and strum them a certain way or finger pick them a certain way, but usually if you stick strictly to chords it will sound quite basic and amateur no matter how you strum or pick, unless of course you choose to sing a melody on top of it or have someone else do it, but you don't seem to want to do that.

another good idea is to find songs of the style you like and look at what they are doing , again all relative to the key they're in.

someone you can checkout but is most likely way out of your ability right now is tommy emmanuel and andy mckee on youtube. try learning some things they do that you like.

if i were you i wouldn't think of it as chords you need to put together but more like parts of a key you want to put together. it's a good idea to learn alot of chords and know them all, but you shouldn't be approaching it as chords to put together, but instead sounds to put together and the learning of the chords was only to find out how to make the sounds you want.

once you know the scale well and you play some chords you will see that you can just add other notes of the scale on top of any chord you play and it will sound nice, and you'll be able to play around like this sometimes adding brand new chords, but they are just other notes of the same scale.

very often you need only play the notes of the key scale, once you know it well the single spaces in between are few and easy to recognize, songs sometimes use these in one or two chords, but still most of the time you can just play the major scale, and in my opinion you should first do that, get to know the key scale and the sounds specific notes make and then just make your songs without thinking of what chord is what and instead just what you want to hear.