Guitar Chord Chart
108 guitar chord diagrams covering all 12 keys and 9 qualities. Tap a chord to hear how it sounds. Filter by quality, type, or search by name.
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108 guitar chord diagrams covering all 12 keys and 9 qualities. Tap a chord to hear how it sounds. Filter by quality, type, or search by name.
Showing 108 chords
All 12 keys, 9 chord qualities: major, minor, dom7, maj7, min7, sus2, sus4, dim, aug. Each diagram shows finger positions on the fretboard. Click any chord card to hear it played. The filter buttons and search box at the top help you find what you need quickly.
Think of the diagram as the fretboard standing upright. Six vertical lines are the strings, low E on the left, high E on the right. Horizontal lines are frets. The dots show where your fingers land. Numbers indicate which finger: 1 is index, 2 is middle, 3 is ring, 4 is pinky. An X above a string means do not play it. An O means play it open.
C, G, D, Em, Am, E. Learn those six first. They get you through an enormous number of songs because the open strings handle part of the fingering. After those are comfortable, add A, Dm, and E7 and you will have solid coverage across most popular music.
Your index finger presses flat across all six strings at one fret. It works like a movable capo. Your other fingers form the chord shape above it. And because the whole thing slides up and down the neck, one shape covers every key. The two most common barre chord shapes are based on open E and open A.
Major sounds bright. Minor sounds darker. The difference is a single note: the third. In a major chord the third sits 4 semitones above the root. In minor it is 3 semitones. Lower that one note by a fret and the character of the chord shifts completely. The root and fifth do not change.