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Contents 1 Open Chords 1.1 Open Major Chords 1.2 Open Minor Chords 1.3 Barre Chords 1.4 Open Seventh Chords 1.5 Chord Reference 1.6 External link

[edit] Open Chords

Open chords tend to sound "richer" than corresponding barre chords due to the fact that open strings resonate freely without any hindrance. An open chord is any chord that has one or more strings sounded without being fretted. Guitarists tend to use this name to refer to the chords that contain open strings that are played in the first position (first four frets).

[edit] Open Major Chords

A major	C major	D major
E major	F major	G major

[edit] Open Minor Chords

A minor

D minor

E minor

[edit] Barre Chords

B major	B minor
F major	F minor

[edit] Open Seventh Chords

D7	G7
A7	C7

[edit] Chord Reference

Chords in C major

C major

D minor

E minor

F major

G major

A minor

B dim7

Note that the chords in the key of C major consists of 3 major chords, 3 minor chords and 1 diminished chord. This holds true for all major keys.

[edit] External link

• http://www.howtotuneaguitar.org/chord-finder-guitar/chordbot.html Over 1800 guitar chords
• http://www.guitarwiki.com/index.php/Guitar_Chords Much bigger list of chords at GuitarWiki.com
• http://www.guitarconsultant.com/guitarchords.html
• http://www.guitarnotes.com/guitar/notes2/ultimate11.shtml
• http://www.chordgenie.com Chord finder on your mobile phone for standard and alternate tunings
• http://www.zworkbench.com/products.html - cool guitar chord reference for your cell phone
• http://wikiguitar.net/index.php?title=Chord_Dictionary - Visual chord reference.
• http://www.guitar-chords.org.uk Chord diagrams and note reference
• http://www.all-guitar-chords.com/ Interactive chord finder and much more