GUITAR BOARD

Graze wrote:

My niece is learning classical guitar at school and (as youd expect)
there are no chords at all, just individual notes, time signatures and
reading music.

Its terribly, terribly dull, and because of this she never picks up the
thing outside school.

Id teach her all the major, minor, and seventh chords (get a wall
chart), with barre forms, and then get some sheet music for her fave
artist where she can just use the chords to start off with. If she
needs something odd like a major 7th or a minor 6th, its usually
pictured in the book anyway. She already knows how to read music, so
knocking out chords isnt quite such a Bad Thing as it might otherwise be.

When shes become attached to the instrument, you can do scales and note
positions; then she can use her clarinet knowledge if she wants.

A curious thing is that some proper musicians dont really understand
chords; my wife teaches piano and has never heard of a dominant seventh
or a suspended fourth, even though she plays them all the time.