Jim Bevins

is an interactive diagram of a guitar fretboard. It shows you all the different ways that chords can be made, in different tunings.

It’s inspired by Robert Johnston’s of teaching, but doesn’t necessarily do it justice. You might also be interested in relating this to the .

The diagram shows a guitar (or violin or ukulele) with the head on the left. The root note of any chord is shown in white wherever it appears on the fretboard, and the other notes that appear in any chord are highlighted with colours depending on their relation to the root. A chord is made up of three or more different notes, each of which might be played  on one or more string, so that there is always a range of different ways of playing any chord on a stringed instrument. Usually the root note is the deepest string played, but not always.

Use the drop-down menus to choose your chord, or else click on the applet to give it focus and then use the keyboard to select chords:

• a-g choose the root note of the chord.
• A-G are sharp chords, so press shift and a to get A#

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