Guitar Chord Chart

Every guitar chord, calculated for you

This guitar chord chart shows how to play any chord in standard tuning. Pick a root note and one of nineteen chord types — major, minor, power chord, dominant 7th, major 7th, minor 7th, sus2, sus4, 7sus4, diminished, diminished 7th, half-diminished, augmented, 6th, minor 6th, add9, 9th, major 9th and minor 9th — and the tool draws up to three diagrams in different positions on the neck. The familiar open-position shapes such as C, G, D, Am and E appear first when they exist, followed by barre and higher-position voicings that are useful for moving around the fretboard.

Above the diagrams you can see the chord's notes and the interval of each one, for example C – E – G – B♭ for C7 (root, major 3rd, perfect 5th, minor 7th). Inside the diagrams every dot is labelled with its interval, so you learn not just where to put your fingers but why the chord sounds the way it does. Press Strum to hear a voicing played with a plucked-string sound.

How the voicings are found

Instead of relying on a fixed list, the chart computes voicings from music theory. It walks four-fret windows along the neck and tries every combination of chord tones and muted strings on the six strings. A shape is kept only if the lowest sounding note is the root, all chord tones are present (the fifth may be dropped in larger chords), no muted string sits between sounding strings, and it needs at most four fingers, counting a barre as one. The remaining shapes are ranked by the number of strings, open strings, fret position and stretch, and the best voicing from each area of the neck is shown.

Practice tips

Learn the first voicing of the main major and minor chords, then use the second and third diagrams to find the same chord higher up the neck. Moving between nearby shapes rather than jumping across the fretboard makes chord changes smoother. Everything runs in your browser, with no downloads or sign-up required.