Guitar
Chords, scales, keys and strumming patterns on guitar. The chords cover all 12 roots in five types (major, minor, 7, m7 and maj7), each with shapes, fingerings and audio. The scales and the chords of all 24 keys show the shapes on the neck; the strumming patterns play in the browser.
On the guitar, six strings give the chord room to breathe — some positions use them all, others ask you to mute the lowest ones.
Pick a chord to start: every page has shapes, fingerings, a scale map and audio.
Chords
- C
- Cm
- C7
- Cm7
- Cmaj7
- C#
- C#m
- C#7
- C#m7
- C#maj7
- D
- Dm
- D7
- Dm7
- Dmaj7
- D#
- D#m
- D#7
- D#m7
- D#maj7
- E
- Em
- E7
- Em7
- Emaj7
- F
- Fm
- F7
- Fm7
- Fmaj7
- F#
- F#m
- F#7
- F#m7
- F#maj7
- G
- Gm
- G7
- Gm7
- Gmaj7
- G#
- G#m
- G#7
- G#m7
- G#maj7
- A
- Am
- A7
- Am7
- Amaj7
- A#
- A#m
- A#7
- A#m7
- A#maj7
- B
- Bm
- B7
- Bm7
- Bmaj7
Scales
- Ionian
- Dorian
- Phrygian
- Lydian
- Mixolydian
- Aeolian
- Locrian
- Natural minor
- Harmonic minor
- Melodic minor
- Locrian ♮6
- Ionian ♯5 (augmented)
- Dorian ♯4 (Ukrainian)
- Phrygian dominant
- Lydian ♯2
- Ultralocrian
- Dorian ♭2
- Lydian augmented
- Lydian dominant
- Mixolydian ♭6
- Locrian ♮2
- Altered (super-Locrian)
- Major pentatonic
- Minor pentatonic
- Minor blues
- Major blues
- Whole tone
- Diminished (half-whole)
- Diminished (whole-half)
- Bebop dominant
- Bebop major
- Bebop Dorian
- Harmonic major
- Double harmonic (Byzantine)
- Hungarian minor (Gypsy)
- Neapolitan minor
- Neapolitan major
- Persian
Chords by key
- C major
- G major
- D major
- A major
- E major
- B major
- F# major
- Db major
- Ab major
- Eb major
- Bb major
- F major
- A minor
- E minor
- B minor
- F# minor
- C# minor
- G# minor
- Eb minor
- Bb minor
- F minor
- C minor
- G minor
- D minor
Grooves
- Boom-chuck
- Samba (thumb bass + finger block, 1 bar)
- Baião (thumb figure + finger answers)
- Sertanejo waltz
- Partido alto (guitar)
- Cateretê (viola caipira)
- Slow cateretê (viola caipira)
- Soleá rasgueado
- Boom-chicka (country train beat)
- Bluegrass boom-chuck (alternating bass)
- 6/8 ballad strum
- Acoustic blues shuffle strum
- 12/8 slow-rock / gospel ballad
- Folk/country waltz (3/4 with lift)
- Cumbia Offbeat (bajo-contratiempo)
- Bolero (cinquillo)
- Son Montuno Guajeo (2-3)
- Milonga (habanera 3-3-2)
- Bachata Derecho
- Merengue (tambora two-beat)
- Bulería rasgueado (12-beat, por medio)
- Tangos flamencos rasgueado (4/4)
- Rumba flamenca (tresillo, gipsy rumba)
- Sevillanas rasgueado (3/4)
- Ijexá (finger block on the beat, thumb on the offbeat)
- Ciranda guitar groove
- Coco (de roda) guitar groove
- Chacarera rasgueo (guitar)
- Zamba rasgueo (guitar)
- Seguiriya rasgueado (12-beat amalgam)
- Bossa nova (João Gilberto, 2-bar batida)
- Bossa nova (chord anticipated every bar)
- Choro, 6-string 'centro' (thumb on the beat, chord in between)
- Samba-canção (slow samba, thumb + finger block)
- Xote (thumb = zabumba, fingers = bacalhau)
- Forró pé-de-serra (open first bass, accent on beat 2)
- Frevo / carnival march (thumb on every beat)
- Bolero as played in Brazil (2 bars)
- Guarânia (3/4, thumb walks root–third–fifth)
- Rasqueado / Paraguayan polka (6/8)
- Samba-rock, Jorge Ben style (1963)