Open chords chart
The eighteen first-position shapes played in the first three frets — C, A, G, E, D and their minors and dominant sevenths. No barre anywhere on the sheet.
Guitar reference
Guitar Chord Chart— All Chords, Free Printable PDF
The whole chart is below — 24 open, seventh and barre shapes you can read on screen and hear with a tap. Print it, or jump straight to the chart that matches what you came for.
Open guitar chords
First-position shapes, played in the first three frets with strings left ringing. These eight carry most of the songs a beginner wants to play. Tap any diagram to hear it.
Open 7th chords
Add one note to a triad and the chord starts leaning somewhere. Dominant sevenths pull toward the next chord; major and minor sevenths sit still and sound soft.
Barre guitar chords
One finger flattens across the strings and the shape becomes movable. Learn the E shape and the A shape and every root on the neck is available from two fingerings.
Printable chord charts
Eight guitar charts, each typeset for one job. Every one is a free PDF in Letter and A4, most with a left-handed variant.
Barre chords chart
Both movable forms — the E shape rooted on the sixth string and the A shape rooted on the fifth — with the fret-to-root map that turns two shapes into all twelve keys.
7th chords chart
Dominant 7, major 7, minor 7, minor 7♭5 and diminished 7 across every root. The chart blues, jazz, soul and gospel players actually reach for.
Power chords chart
Two-note and three-note fifths on the sixth, fifth and fourth strings, with the root-note map for sliding one shape up the neck.
Beginner guitar chord chart
Eight easy chords, oversized diagrams, no barre and no F. The first month of guitar on a single sheet you can read from across the room.
Complete guitar chord chart — all chords
Every common quality in all twelve keys on one page, colour-banded by root: major, minor, 7, maj7, m7, dim, aug, sus2 and sus4.
Diminished and augmented chord chart
The symmetrical shapes — dim, dim7, m7♭5 and aug — with the repeating patterns that let one fingering cover three or four roots.
Guitar fretboard notes chart
Every note name on all six strings up to the twelfth fret. The reference that turns a barre shape into a named chord.
How to read a guitar chord chart
A chord diagram is the neck stood on end and viewed from the front. The six vertical lines are the strings, low E on the left through high E on the right. The horizontal lines are frets, and the thick bar across the top is the nut — the zero point of the neck.
Dots show where to press. The number inside each dot is the fretting finger: 1 is the index, 2 the middle, 3 the ring, 4 the pinky. Above the nut, O means strum that string open and X means keep it silent. When a shape lives higher up the neck the diagram drops the nut and prints a fret number beside the top row, so 5fr means the top line is the fifth fret.
A curved line or a bar spanning several strings is a barre: one finger, usually the index, laid flat across them all. That single idea is what turns eight open shapes into a full chord vocabulary, because a barred shape can slide to any fret and rename itself.
Full walkthrough in How to read a chord chart, and the movable-shape system in the CAGED system.
Keep going: the guitar hub has a diagram for every chord; all guitar chords A–Z is the plain index.
Not sure what you played? The chord finder names a chord from its notes.
Chord, not fretboard: the chord library shows the same chord on all six instruments.
Playing with a capo? The capo guide explains which open shapes to keep.
All guitar chords, by root
329 guitar chords with typeset fingerings. Each one opens its own page — alternate voicings up the neck, audio, common mistakes and voice-leading notes.
C
D
E♭
E
F
F♯
G
A
B♭
Guitar chord chart questions
Is the guitar chord chart PDF really free?
Yes. No email gate, no signup, no watermark. Click a format button and the PDF downloads. It is licensed for personal, classroom and non-commercial use, so teachers can print a stack for a first lesson.
How do I read a guitar chord chart?
Vertical lines are strings (low E on the left), horizontal lines are frets, and the thick bar at the top is the nut. A dot is a finger press, the number inside it is which finger (1 = index, 4 = pinky), O above a string means play it open, and X means mute it. When a chart starts higher up the neck a fret number sits beside the top row.
Which guitar chords should I learn first?
Em, C, G, D and Am cover an enormous amount of popular music between them. Learn those five, then add A, E and Dm, then take on F — the partial barre that everyone finds hard — once the open shapes are automatic.
What is the difference between open chords and barre chords?
Open chords leave one or more strings ringing unfretted, which is why they sound bright and are easier to hold. Barre chords press one finger across every string, so nothing rings open — harder to fret, but the whole shape slides up the neck to give you all twelve roots from one fingering.
Can I print the chart on A4 paper?
Yes. Every guitar chart ships in Letter and A4, and most also ship a left-handed variant with the fretboard mirrored. Pick the format button you need — the layout is re-typeset for each size rather than scaled, so nothing is cramped.
Do the chords on this page play audio?
Yes. Every diagram on this page has a play button that voices the chord through a sampled guitar, so you can check a shape by ear before you commit it to muscle memory. Open any chord's own page for more voicings up the neck.