Is the piano chord chart PDF 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 a teacher can print a set for a class.

How do I read a piano chord chart?

Each diagram is a stretch of keyboard seen from above. Shaded keys are the notes you press, and every shaded key is labelled with its letter: below the key on screen, on the key in the printable charts, which also put the suggested right-hand finger number under it. Play the shaded keys together with the right hand, thumb on the lowest one, and you have the chord.

What notes are in a major, minor and 7th chord?

A major triad is the root, the note four semitones up, and the note seven semitones up — C E G for C major. A minor triad flattens the middle note by one semitone: C E♭ G. A dominant seventh adds a note ten semitones above the root: C E G B♭.

Which piano chords should I learn first?

C, F, G, Am, Dm and Em use only white keys and cover an enormous amount of popular music. Learn those six shapes, then add the dominant sevenths G7 and C7, then start moving the same shapes onto black-key roots.

Does the chart show finger numbers?

Yes, for the right hand. The printable PDFs put a suggested finger number under each shaded key — 1 is the thumb through 5 for the little finger — for the root-position voicing shown. The sus2 and sus4 chords on the complete chart are printed without numbers. The finger positions section on this page works through C, F, G and A minor the same way. The chord grids at the top show the notes, so you can check the spelling and hear each chord before you print.

Is there a left-hand piano chord chart?

The charts here mark right-hand fingering only. The notes of a chord are the same in either hand; for a left-hand root-position triad the usual starting fingering is 5-3-1 — little finger on the root, middle finger on the third, thumb on the fifth. The charts don't give left-hand numbers for seventh chords or inversions. Many beginners start the left hand on just the root note, an octave below the right-hand chord.

Can I print the piano chart on A4?

Yes. Every piano chart ships in both Letter and A4, re-typeset for each size rather than scaled, so the keyboards stay legible at either paper size.

Piano reference

Piano Chord Chart— with Finger Positions, Free Printable PDF

The whole chart is below — 36 chords across all twelve roots, each drawn on a labelled keyboard you can hear with a tap. Print it, or jump to the chart that matches what you came for.

↓ Piano chord chart PDF · Letter ↓ Piano chord chart PDF · A4Free, no email gate

Piano major chords

Root, major third, perfect fifth — twelve of them, one per root. Shaded keys are the notes you press. Tap any keyboard to hear the chord.

C Major

D♭

Db Major

D Major

E♭

Eb Major

E Major

F Major

F♯

F# Major

G Major

A♭

Ab Major

A Major

B♭

Bb Major

B Major

Piano minor chords

The same shape with the middle note dropped one semitone. That single key is the whole difference between bright and sad.

C Minor

C♯m

C# Minor

D Minor

E♭m

Eb Minor

E Minor

F Minor

F♯m

F# Minor

G Minor

G♯m

G# Minor

A Minor

B♭m

Bb Minor

B Minor

Piano 7th chords

Dominant sevenths — a fourth note that leans the chord somewhere. These are what make blues, gospel and jazz sound like themselves.

C Dominant 7th

D♭7

Db Dominant 7th

D Dominant 7th

E♭7

Eb Dominant 7th

E Dominant 7th

F Dominant 7th

F♯7

F# Dominant 7th

G Dominant 7th

A♭7

Ab Dominant 7th

A Dominant 7th

B♭7

Bb Dominant 7th

B Dominant 7th

Piano chord finger positions

Finger numbers name fingers, not keys: 1 is the thumb, 2 the index, 3 the middle, 4 the ring and 5 the little finger. Each chord below shows a suggested right-hand fingering for one root-position voicing — the number under a shaded key is the finger that plays it, the same numbers the printable charts use.

Fingering depends on your hand size and on the chords before and after, so treat it as a starting point, not a rule.

C major

Keys: C4 · E4 · G4
Right-hand fingers: 1 · 3 · 5

C major on piano: notes, inversions and audio →

F major

Keys: F4 · A4 · C5
Right-hand fingers: 1 · 3 · 5

F major on piano: notes, inversions and audio →

G major

Keys: G4 · B4 · D5
Right-hand fingers: 1 · 3 · 5

G major on piano: notes, inversions and audio →

A minor

Keys: A4 · C5 · E5
Right-hand fingers: 1 · 3 · 5

A minor on piano: notes, inversions and audio →

In all four, the thumb takes the root, the middle finger the third and the little finger the fifth. Four-note chords add a finger: a root-position G7 (G4 · B4 · D5 · F5) is commonly played 1-2-3-5, which is the fingering the printable chart shows for its 7, maj7 and m7 chords. Inversions often call for 1-2-4-5 instead. The beginner piano guide starts from the finger numbers and builds the 1-3-5 hand shape from there.

Printable chord charts

5 keyboard and key-reference charts, each typeset for one job. Every one is a free PDF in Letter and A4.

Complete piano chord chart with letters

Every common quality in all twelve keys — major, minor, 7, maj7, m7, dim, aug, sus2, sus4 — on labelled keyboards, with the note letters printed on the keys rather than left for you to count out.

↓ Complete Piano Chord Chart PDF — Letter (8.5 × 11 in)↓ Complete Piano Chord Chart PDF — A4 (210 × 297 mm)About the complete piano chord chart with letters →

Beginner piano chord chart

Twelve chords to start on: C, D, E, F, G and A, each as a major and a minor triad, with a suggested right-hand finger number under every shaded key. Begin with C, F, G, Am, Dm and Em, which use only white keys.

↓ Beginner Piano Chord Chart PDF — Letter (8.5 × 11 in)↓ Beginner Piano Chord Chart PDF — A4 (210 × 297 mm)About the beginner piano chord chart →

Piano notes chart

Every key on the keyboard named, octave by octave, with middle C marked. The reference that turns a chord spelling into a hand position.

↓ Piano Notes Chart PDF — Letter (8.5 × 11 in)↓ Piano Notes Chart PDF — A4 (210 × 297 mm)About the piano notes chart →

Key signature chart

All fifteen major and fifteen minor signatures with their sharps and flats in order. Read a signature and you know which chords belong in the key before you play a note.

↓ Key Signature Chart PDF — Letter (8.5 × 11 in)↓ Key Signature Chart PDF — A4 (210 × 297 mm)About the key signature chart →

Circle of fifths poster

Key signatures, relative minors and the chords that belong together, on a poster-sized wheel. The fastest way to see why some chord changes sound inevitable.

↓ Circle of Fifths Poster PDF — Letter (8.5 × 11 in)↓ Circle of Fifths Poster PDF — A4 (210 × 297 mm)↓ Circle of Fifths Poster PDF — Tabloid (11 × 17 in poster)About the circle of fifths poster →

How to read a piano chord chart

Every diagram above is a stretch of keyboard seen from above, starting at C. Shaded keys are the notes in the chord. Press them together — thumb on the lowest shaded key, then the remaining fingers on the ones above — and you are playing the chord.

The spelling underneath tells you why. A major triad stacks the root, a major third and a perfect fifth: C E G. Lower that third by a semitone and it turns minor: C E♭ G. Add a note a minor seventh above the root and you get a dominant seventh — the chord that refuses to sit still.

Order is negotiable. Playing E G C is still a C major chord, just an inversion — the same notes with a different one on the bottom. Inversions are how you move between chords without your hand leaping around the keyboard.

More on that in chord inversions and slash chords, and a full starting path in the beginner piano guide.

Keep going: the piano hub has a keyboard for every chord; all piano chords A–Z is the plain index.

Naming keys: the piano notes chart labels the whole keyboard.

Chord, not instrument: the chord library shows the same chord on all six instruments.

Which chords go together? Browse by key or open the circle of fifths.

All piano chords

360 piano chords with keyboard diagrams. Each one opens its own page — notes, intervals, inversions, audio and the same chord on every other instrument.

Piano chord chart questions

Is the piano chord chart PDF 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 a teacher can print a set for a class.
How do I read a piano chord chart?
Each diagram is a stretch of keyboard seen from above. Shaded keys are the notes you press, and every shaded key is labelled with its letter: below the key on screen, on the key in the printable charts, which also put the suggested right-hand finger number under it. Play the shaded keys together with the right hand, thumb on the lowest one, and you have the chord.
What notes are in a major, minor and 7th chord?
A major triad is the root, the note four semitones up, and the note seven semitones up — C E G for C major. A minor triad flattens the middle note by one semitone: C E♭ G. A dominant seventh adds a note ten semitones above the root: C E G B♭.
Which piano chords should I learn first?
C, F, G, Am, Dm and Em use only white keys and cover an enormous amount of popular music. Learn those six shapes, then add the dominant sevenths G7 and C7, then start moving the same shapes onto black-key roots.
Does the chart show finger numbers?
Yes, for the right hand. The printable PDFs put a suggested finger number under each shaded key — 1 is the thumb through 5 for the little finger — for the root-position voicing shown. The sus2 and sus4 chords on the complete chart are printed without numbers. The finger positions section on this page works through C, F, G and A minor the same way. The chord grids at the top show the notes, so you can check the spelling and hear each chord before you print.
Is there a left-hand piano chord chart?
The charts here mark right-hand fingering only. The notes of a chord are the same in either hand; for a left-hand root-position triad the usual starting fingering is 5-3-1 — little finger on the root, middle finger on the third, thumb on the fifth. The charts don't give left-hand numbers for seventh chords or inversions. Many beginners start the left hand on just the root note, an octave below the right-hand chord.
Can I print the piano chart on A4?
Yes. Every piano chart ships in both Letter and A4, re-typeset for each size rather than scaled, so the keyboards stay legible at either paper size.