A complete reference guide to every essential guitar chord type — with fretboard diagrams, finger positions, and free printable blank chord charts to draw your own shapes.
All 7 major open-position chords for guitar — C, D, E, F, G, A, B — with fretboard diagrams and finger position guides for beginne...
All 7 minor open and barre chords — the essential darker second color every guitarist needs alongside the major chords....
Dominant 7th chords add the flat 7th to a major triad — the definitive blues and rock-and-roll chord type. All 7 shapes in open an...
Major 7th chords add the natural 7th to a major triad — a lush, jazzy sound heard in bossa nova, neo-soul, and dream pop....
Minor 7th chords combine a minor triad with a flat 7th — smooth, soulful, and essential for R&B, funk and jazz....
Suspended chords replace the third with either the second (sus2) or fourth (sus4), creating an open, unresolved sound that begs fo...
Diminished chords (1-b3-b5) create tense, transitional harmony. Augmented chords (1-3-#5) have a bright, unsettled quality. Both a...
Moveable barre chords based on E and A open-chord shapes — the gateway to playing any chord in any key. Master these and the entir...
All essential open-position chords using open strings — C, A, G, E, D, Am, Em, Dm and their common variations. The first chords ev...
Two-note power chords (root + fifth) — the backbone of rock, punk and metal rhythm guitar. Moveable shapes with the root on the 6t...