Every chord a beginner needs on two clean pages: 15 essential open chords and 9 basic barre chords, each diagram marked with the finger that plays each note. Print the PDF for the music stand, or click any chord name below to see more voicings, the notes inside it, and hear it played.
Two pages, letter or A4, no sign-up. Open chords on page one, barre chords on page two.
Download PDFBasic chord chart for guitar players. These are the easy ones to start your guitar journey. These 15 shapes cover thousands of songs. Learn them in pairs that share fingers (Em and Am, C and G, D and A) and practice the change between each pair for one minute a day.
Basic barre chords for beginning to intermediate guitarists. These can be played on acoustic or electric. Great for building strength. Once the F and B shapes feel solid, the same fingerings give you every major, minor, and seventh chord on the neck. Slide an F shape up two frets and it is G; slide the B shape up one and it is C.
New to reading charts and tabs? The how to read guitar tabs guide covers the tab side, and how to practice guitar shows how to drill chord changes so they stick.
These two sets are collections built in the free Chord Diagram Maker. Click any fret to place a finger, and the tool names the chord for you, including shapes that are not in any book. Save your own shapes into collections to print, share by link, or embed on your website, or open either set above in the viewer and copy it as a starting point. Need chords for a whole song? The chord sheet maker puts chords over lyrics, and the chord library has diagrams and audio for hundreds more chords. Pro removes the small watermark from your own exports.
Yes. Download the PDF and print it on letter or A4 paper, no sign-up needed. It has two pages: the essential open chords and the basic barre chords, each with finger numbers.
Open chords: A, Am, A7, C, C7, Cadd9, D, Dm, D7, E, Em, E7, F, G, G7. Barre chords: B, B, B7, Bm7, Bmaj7, F, Fm, F7, Fm7. Together they cover most beginner and intermediate songs.
Yes, the blank chord chart paper has empty grids for charting your own voicings by hand, and there is blank tab paper too.
Hundreds of chords with voicings, notes, and audio.
Build any chord shape and the tool names it for you.
Printable empty grids for writing your own chords.
Chords over lyrics, transpose, print.
Pentatonic, blues, major, minor, and modes on the fretboard, roots in red.
