Guitar players, please enter. How to play these certain chords?

[RSI]

I know all my basic chords, minors and 7ths. But there are some that I just don't know how to play, even though I'm sure they're not difficult.

(b will represent a flat)

Bb6, Bbm6, Gm7 (I think I know this one, not sure), C9, D7-9, C7+, C13-9, F6, Eb9, Gm6, Bb7, Bm11, E7-9 and others, but I won't list them all.

These are all part of a song called "Georgia on My Mind". I just saw that sheet lying around my room, and I figured hey it's something else to learn, and I looked and saw that I didn't know how to play half the chords! This is pathetic, considering I've been playing guitar for a while now.

Now, there are some notes I'd like to know how to play from some specific songs...

How do you play sharps, first of all? What would an F# be? This is one of the notes in Hotel California, and I'd really like to learn that song (I have it tabbed out here, and I can't play it).

Starts off with a Bm (well, the chords start off that way), which I can play. Then it goes to F#, which I Dont' know how to play. I can play a regular and minor and 7 (I think) F, but what about the # (Sharp)? That looks like the only one that I can't play in Hotel California, so aside from the introduction P), I'd be able to play it fine.

Heh... I just realized that Shimmer (Fuel) starts on a C! Plain old C! Heheh.

Looks like the entire song is all C, D (different types), Em...

OK, there are other songs I'd like to learn (Layla, Eric Clapton... The one that has the insane beginning ), but I'll exclude that for now.

I'd be greatufl if anybody can help me with what I've written above. Thanks alot!

-RSI

 

[Rastus]

Go to OLGA. They have a chord program. Lots of TABS.

 

[RSI]

Thanks a lot Rastus, that's perfect.

Aaaand time to continue on..... Oooh, Smooth (Santana) tabs.. I've been wanting to learn the rest of the solo.

Agh, gotta get Kryptonite too, now that I know the first 2 seconds, I have to find out what the rest is!

-RSI

 

I'll cop out and take the easy question. A # (sharp) is made by simply moving the structure of the chord you want up (towards the body of the guitar) 1 fret. This gets tricky with open chords because you have to account for open notes being moved up to the 1st fret, so alot of time a # chord will be completely different than you would think.

The concept is most easily seen with barre chords. The F#m (I think it's minor in Hotel California) is just an Fm barre chord moved up one fret

F#m
2
2
2
4
4
2

That's a barre on 2.

 

[KaBudokan]

Actually, to follow up on the easy answer...

Hotel California is played using Bm at the 7th fret, then f# at the 6th (in a "D chord shape&quot, on down. Find the tab, and you can play the intro pretty easily.