Reading Double-Stops and Triple-Stops

Part of reading on the guitar involves reading multiple notes at the same time. Very often you will have to read chords in addition to single-note lines. Read the examples below and find the best fingering for each chord. You may find many of these examples similar to the open chords you learned in previous chapters. 

The exercises below will incorporate Double-Stops, which is a term referring to two notes played at the same time, as well as Triple Stops which incorporates three notes played simultaneously. Practice the exercises below. You may need to use both the open position as well as the 5th position to play these exercises.