Guitar Chord Charts

This hub will show you how to make the best use of free guitar chord charts that you can find online.

You know the frets on your guitar's neck show you where the notes are, so let's get more technical. You will see on scale charts that in a given position on the fret board, you will sometimes be required to move up or down one fret or two frets. If you play the note at the first fret, and then move up to the second fret, you have moved up a semitone. If you have moved up two frets, it is called a tone. The distance between the notes E and F or B and C is a tone. The distance between the notes C and D is a tone. So as you learn songs in different keys you will start to see that what you are playing when you play scales is different patterns of tones or semi tones on the guitar neck.

When you are learning chords to accompany songs, you will probably make use of your chord charts showing you chords that use all the guitar's strings. But if you want to get into playing solos start with the three note chords called triads. The three notes in a triad are the basic notes of your chord, so by learning triads you will begin to see how the guitar chords are structured. Also you can move your triads up and down the fret board to make new chords.

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Move that shape one semitone (one fret) up the neck and you get A# or Bb.

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One fret higher is B Major.

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This shape played anywhere on the neck will give you a major chord. The fret it is played at tells you the key it is in.

Here are the notes for the triads of the basic chords:

C Major - C E G

D Major - D F# A

E Major - B E G#

F Major - C F A

G Major - G B D

A Major - A C# E

B Major - B D# F#

Now the minor chords:

C Minor - C Eb G

D Minor - D F A

E Minor - B E G

F Minor - C F Ab

G Minor - G Bb D

A Minor - A C E

B Minor - B D F#

Learn more about guitar chords at Learn How To Play A Guitar For Free