The Rules In order to fully understand Teaching Your Guitar To Wall, it is necessary to identify some theoretical rules used in the first part of this book. RULE 1: The root of a chord must be played on beat J (the down beat of the measure) whenever a chord change occurs. RULE 2: The upper part of the chord must be played on the “and” of the beat (the up beats of the measure). *The majority of this book uses rule two, but not exclusively. There will be measures where the upper chord is played on the down beat. The following example shows one measure of Dm7 and one measure of Gm7. The root notes of each chord (D and G) are played on beat number one. The upper part of each chord is played on the and of one. o 471 2 3 4 Root Upper Chord T — 3 A 5 B = a