A guitar chord is a collection of tones usually sounded together at once, played on a guitar. Sounds simple? Guitar chords really are easy. Guitar chords for the guitar can be made for many different playing styles. They can be composed of notes played on only a few strings at a time, whether occurring on adjacent strings or not, or on all the strings. Still in? Let us jump right to the guitar chords diagram.
Guitar Chords diagram
Common guitar chords for six-string standard tuning. Guitar chords can be represented in standard musical notation like sheet music, guitar tabs, or in guitar chord diagrams as you can see below.
There are several symbols used in the guitar chord diagram format.
- Vertical lines represent the guitar strings. The line on the left represents the sixth, or thickest, string on the guitar.
- Horizontal lines represent the frets. Unless a different fret number is indicated on the right-hand side, the top horizontal line represents the nut or the top fret.
- An X above a vertical line means a string that is not played.
- An O above a vertical line is an open string. A string that is played open.
- A filled circle indicates the position in which a string is fretted to play a note.
- A filled circle and square also indicates the position in which a string is played, and that the note is the root note or an octave of it.
- A curved line is used to indicate a single finger used to hold multiple strings down at once.
- Numbers beneath certain string indicate the finger number that is usually used to play this note. One represents the index finger, two is the middle finger and so on.
Now, it is also easier to just take a look at some guitar chords. See the example above, or see more guitar chords here.
Note that guitar chords here on fretplay.com mostly are the notes written simple like this
Guitar chords example from fretplay. The song is “Nothing
Else matters” by Metallica.
Em, D, C, G, Am
The G chord is
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Em D C
So close no no matter how far
Em D C
couldn't be much more from apart
Em D C
forever, trusting who we are
Guitar chords - Latest additions
New guitar chords are added to our already huge collection every day and below is a list of the freshest chords.
