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um... What do you mean you don't understand chords? You have a "rich" musical background but don't understand one of the fundamental building blocks of music?
You don't need to understand chords to use them either... Most songs are basic on 3 chords and almost all western music is built from those 3 chords. And what are those 3 chords???? The tonic dominant and subdominant.... or in the key of Cmaj, Cmaj Gmaj and Fmaj.
Don't worry about other chord types. Just play with those 3 chords. Once you can make songs with them then you can worry about embellishing them and inserting other "chords"(which are actually one of those in disguise).
So you might have
C F G C = I IV V I... one of the most common progressions and found in almost every piece of western music.
C F C G C = very similar to above
C G F C = not common in cpp but if you make those dom7th chords(i.e. C7 G7 F7) you get part of the basic 12-bar blues.
Then once you get your head around those you can use other diatonic chords such as Am, Dm, etc... Then you can use diminished chords, augmented chords, augmented 6ths, extensions, suspensions, etc... but don't worry bout it now.
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