CHORD CHARTS

The following presentation is designed to help you correctly identify and read a guitar chord chart.

WHY IT MATTERS: Guitar chord charts are literally everywhere: in guitar books & magazines, on handouts in class, on the world wide waste of time (WWW), and in apps for your phone.

WHY YOU SHOULD CARE: If you know how to read chord charts then you will be able to play ANY chord that has ever been played on your guitar. Eventually, you won’t even need a teacher (or book or app for that matter) to tell you how to play the chord and you’ll have a CHORD DICTIONARY in your mind!

INTRODUCTIONS

WHAT IS IT ?

Chord MinorBlank Chord Chart

Guitar Neck

The picture to the left is a. . .

READING CHORD CHARTS

Blank Chord Charts have several different parts.

to find out the name of each part.

NUT

Fret 1

Fret 2

Fret 3

Fret 4

STRING: 6 5 4 3 2 1

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READING CHORD CHARTS

Chord Charts Are a visual representationof a guitar chord.

to find out the name of each part of the chord chart on the right.

Chord Name

Left HandFingers

Ope

n St

ring

(DO

pla

y)

Muted/skipped

String (do NOT

play)

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