This is a guitar chord chart featuring major and minor triad fingerings. These are small and simple chords that you can play to get away from the standard barre chords that most people use for regular major and minor. As opposed to barre chords, these chords do not double any notes, so you will get a different type of sound that may be better to use in some instances.

It is important to realize that many of the standard guitar chords have double notes in them that give them a big sound but do not actually change the type of chord. In some cases you may want this type of sound, but many guitar players do not know how to get a different type if they need to, and this can lead to some monotony in their playing.

Many schools of guitar thought are completely against the bigger barre chords and focus on a minimalistic use of notes that would use these types of chords. Not only will this chart help give you some more options, but it will help you understand the barre chords better as you can see that these triads are parts of the normal barre chord fingerings.

This is a guitar chords chart featuring some one finger chords that should be easy to play for beginners. Often with young inexperienced guitar players the regular chords will be too difficult to play. Along with this, their hands and fingers are sometimes not big enough to really be able to reach multiple notes.

These simplified major chords will give young beginners something to play that sounds good and can easily be performed even by the smallest of hands. All of these chords just take one finger fretting a note, and the rest is done by open strings.

They don’t sound quite as full and nice as the big open string guitar chords, but it’s important to get students playing as fast as possible so what they are doing does not seem like pointless work and they can actually start to hear some music.

There is also some open space on this sheet to add some more simple chords of your own design if you feel the need.

Remember that open strings that can be played without fretting notes is an advantage the guitar has that you should use with inexperienced players so they can start producing sound, but they should not be forgotten either once a player become more advanced. The open strings have a distinct sound that can be used in many situations at any level.

This guitar chord chart has an example of a fully diminished chord. This is a seventh chord with a lowered third, fifth, and double lowered seventh. The formula of intervals makes this chord symmetrical, which means that the chord shape shown in the guitar chord chart can used as inversions based on any chord tone as the root note. The diminished chord shown in this chart can be used all over the fretboard to form the same chord because of its symmetry. When you learn this single diminished chord shape from this chart you learn a chord that can be used much more than a regular chord shape, so this is an easy way to expand your chord playing ability without having to study a lot of guitar chord charts. The diminished chord is a great sound to add to your playing.

The inversions of the 7th chords in the chart allow you to play the chords all over the guitar fretboard, which means you can switch keys and chords without having to move your hand position by more than a fret or two. This is essential in jazz tunes where you may be changing chords every few seconds. If you are looking to expand the harmonic range of your guitar chord playing, check out this drop 3 7th chords chart.

Use this barre chords chart to memorize a few at a time and make sure that you see the similarities between these chord shapes and the open string guitar chords. They are the same chord shapes, just with a barre under them. Barre chords are the next step past open guitar chords in playing so this barre chords chart will help any beginner.