Free Blank Guitar Chord Chart Paper

Download our free printable blank chord chart paper as a PDF. Each sheet has empty fretboard grid diagrams ready for charting your own chord voicings, inversions, and scale shapes by hand.

What Is a Chord Diagram?

A chord diagram is a visual representation of the guitar fretboard showing where to place your fingers to form a chord. The vertical lines represent strings and the horizontal lines represent frets. Dots on the grid show finger placement, and symbols above the diagram indicate open strings (O) or muted strings (X).

Here's an example from our Essential Open Chords collection:

When to Use Printed Chord Charts

Blank chord diagram paper is useful when you want to:

• Document your own voicings — chart chord shapes you've discovered or learned from a teacher
• Map out scale shapes — use the grids to visualize scale patterns across the fretboard
• Build a personal chord reference — create a handwritten cheat sheet for a song or set list
• Take lesson notes — quickly sketch chords your instructor shows you
• Teach students — hand out blank sheets for students to fill in during a lesson

Create Chord Diagrams Digitally

If you'd rather build chord diagrams on screen, our free Chord Chart Maker lets you create professional chord diagrams right in your browser. Click any fret position to place a finger dot, and the tool automatically detects and names the chord. You can export each diagram as a PNG or SVG image.

Build a Chord Collection

Need more than one diagram? Use Chord Collections to group related chords together — for example, all the chords in a song, a set of jazz voicings, or barre chord shapes up the neck. You can share your collection with a public link, and export the entire collection as a single PDF for printing or sharing with bandmates.

Also Available: Blank Tab Paper

Need tablature paper for writing out guitar tabs? Download our blank guitar tab paper PDF with six-line staves ready for notation.