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For a beginner though - that method does seem overly complicated. Most beginner lessons in books etc seem to start you on a few of the easier open chords (A, C, D, E, G), progressing onto the minor and seventh chords a little later - gradually building up a repertoire A beginner will practice these chords over and over until they become second nature and therefore reading the chord name and playing the learnt chord or fingering it from muscle memory is much easier than trying to interpret and implement the fast moving diagram on the in game fretboard for a chord you may have never played before. Whilst authenticity might be key for a more advanced guitarist - being able to play something close to the original, albeit not exactly authentic is what most beginners would probably be aiming for to start with. Given the game has different difficulty settings - it would be good if the game could look at chords that are in a song and pick the easiest or most common variation of it when set to beginner level - especially since the game would appear to accept a standard D chord as acceptable anyway - even though it wouldn't match the fret diagram displayed.

Ok thanks - seems like it's better to read the Chord letter and play the chord you know - than to look at the fret/fingering displayed on the screen. Is there any way to turn off the fret markers for Chords? Given the chord shapes displayed in RS can be uncommon variants - it's just confusing things for a beginner. It might be better just to have the chord name displayed - then show fret markers just for single notes.

I have downloaded some songs from CustomForge - and i'm having a few issues. I am trying to play "Highway to Hell" by AC/DC and have learnt a few basic chords from a book I have. Whilst the A chord in Rocksmith for this song looks the same as what I learnt - the D chord looks totally different. The D Chord is played on the A, D, G, B and e strings - with A and D open, G and e on fret 2 and B on fret 3. However - this screenshot from inside the game seems to show the chord being played on all strings except e - with A muted, E and G strings played on fret 2 and the B sting on fret 3? Looking at some online tabs for this song - it starts A A A D/F# D/F# G However from the chord charts I have found the D/F# chord shouldn't mute string A and also frets the e string on fret 2 just like the normal D Chord. Am I reading it wrong - or is this Chord mislabelled in the song? Thanks