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This document provides a summary of a guitar chord handbook that teaches various chords. The handbook is divided into sections that cover major, minor, dominant 7th, minor 7th, and diminished chords. It provides chord diagrams and finger placements for common chords. It also includes introductions to barre chords, color chords, and a general chord reference page. The overall purpose is to provide visual resources to help users learn guitar chords in a structured way.
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ACORDES

This document provides a summary of a guitar chord handbook that teaches various chords. The handbook is divided into sections that cover major, minor, dominant 7th, minor 7th, and diminished chords. It provides chord diagrams and finger placements for common chords. It also includes introductions to barre chords, color chords, and a general chord reference page. The overall purpose is to provide visual resources to help users learn guitar chords in a structured way.
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Table of Contents

Introduction v
Major Chords 1
Minor Chords 9
Dominant 7th Chords 14
Minor 7th Chords 21
Simple Diminished Chords 26
Barre Chords 27
Introduction to Color Chords 36
Chords with Shared Treble Notes 37
Major 7th Chords 38
Chord Dictionary 39

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Introduction
The purpose of this handbook is to provide you visual resources as you are learning
guitar chords. Chords are sequenced in a fashion that takes into account a few factors,
including ease of play, commonality of play, type of chord, and other groupings (such as
barre chords). The book provides both standard chord visuals and pictures. Both of
these visual resource types are described below.

Chord Visuals

If you place your guitar in a way that it is both


upright and the front is facing you, you see the six
strings leading up vertically to the nut of the guitar.
Most introductory chords on the guitar are placed
close to this top area of the fretboard. Chord
visuals resemble this vertical placement, showing
the nut of the guitar and the first four or five frets.
The adjacent visual shows you numbering for frets
and strings. The below visual shows how these
are combined to show where you depress strings
on the fretboard.

The next visual helps us to


understand what strings are
depressed in a chord (circles on
fretboard), what strings are played
even when not depressed (O’s above
nut of guitar visual), and what strings
are NOT played (X’s above nut of
guitar visual). We also see the name
of the chord above.

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Numbers for Fingers on Chording Hand
Our chording hand is the hand with which we make
chords. Since most people play a “right handed” guitar,
the chording hand is most often the left hand.

We use our fingers to depress strings, numbering them


in this order. Chord visuals use these numbers to show
us common ways to place fingers for chords.

We then end up with a chord visual like below, showing the complete information for the
chord. We need to keep in mind the following:
" What fingers are being used
" Where those fingers are placed on the fretboard (what frets and strings)
" What open strings are being played (O’s)
" What strings are NOT being played (X’s)

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Major Chords

1
E Major Chord

Fingerings for E Major

2
A Major Chord

Fingerings for A Major

3
G Major Chord

Fingerings for G Major

D Major Chord

4
Fingerings for D Major

5
C Major Chord

Fingerings for C Major

6
F Major Chord

Fingerings for F Major

7
Bb Major Chord

Fingerings for Bb Major

8
Minor Chords

9
E minor (Em)

Fingerings for E minor

The following fingering is useful to prepare for minor barre chords on the 6th string

10
A minor (Am)

Fingerings for A minor

11
D minor (Dm)

Fingerings for D minor

12
B minor (Bm)

Fingerings for B minor

13
Dominant Seventh Chords

14
E Dominant 7 Chord (E7)

The below fingering is useful for setting up dominant 7th barre chords on the 6th string.

15
A Dominant 7 (A7) Chord

Fingerings for A7

16
D Dominant 7 Chord (D7)

17
G Dominant 7 Chord (G7)

18
C Dominant 7 Chord (C7)

19
B Dominant 7 Chord (B7)

Fingerings for B7

20
Minor Seventh Chords

21
E Minor 7 Chord (Em7)

The following can be useful to prepping minor 7th barre chords on the 6th string.

22
A minor 7 (Am7)

Fingerings for Am7

The following fingering is useful to set up minor 7 barre chords on the fifth string

23
B Minor 7 (Bm7)

Fingerings for Bm7

24
D Minor 7 (Dm7)

25
Simple Diminished Chords
The following visuals provide examples for a simple way to play diminished chords.
While this approach does not provide the individual root for each chord, it does provide
the harmonic support required. You can search for more particular and advanced
diminished chord shapes online.

Shape for Bdim, Ddim, Fdim, and Abdim

Shape for Cdim, Ebdim, F#dim, and Adim

Shape for Dbdim, Edim, Gdim, and Bbdim

26
Barre Chords

27
F Major Barre Chord (template for 6th string Major Barre Chords)

Fingering for F Major Barre Chord

Examples of other 6th string major barre chords based on same shape:
F# Major Barre: Move the above shape up one fret.
G Major Barre: shape with barre finger on third fret
Ab Major Barre: move to fourth fret

28
B Major Barre Chord (template for 5th string Major Barre Chords)

Examples of other 5th string major barre chords based on same shape:
Bb Major Barre: Move shape back one fret, so barre finger is on first fret
C Major Barre: Move the above shape up one fret (to third fret).
Db Major Barre: move to fourth fret

29
F minor Barre Chord: (Template for 6th String Minor Barre Chords)

Examples of other 6th string minor barre chords based on same shape:
F# Minor Barre: Move the above shape up one fret.
G Minor Barre: shape with barre finger on third fret
Ab Minor Barre: move to fourth fret

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Bb minor Barre Chord: Template for 5th String Minor Barre Chords

Examples of other 5th string minor barre chords based on same shape:
B Minor Barre: Move shape up one fret, so barre finger is on second fret
C Minor Barre: Move the above shape up two frets (to third fret).

31
F7 Barre Chord: Template for 6th String Dominant 7th Barre Chords

Examples of other 6th string 7th barre chords based on same shape:
F#7 Barre: Move the above shape up one fret.
G7 Barre: shape with barre finger on third fret
Ab7 Barre: move to fourth fret

32
Bb7 minor Barre: Template for 5th String Dominant 7th Chords

Examples of other 5th string 7th barre chords based on same shape:
B7 Barre: Move shape up one fret, so barre finger is on second fret
C7 Barre: Move the above shape up two frets (to third fret).

33
Fm7 Barre Chord: Template for Minor 7th Barre Chords, 6th String

Examples of other 6th string minor 7th barre chords based on same shape:
F#m7 Barre: Move the above shape up one fret.
Gm7 Barre: shape with barre finger on third fret
Abm7 Barre: move to fourth fret

34
Bbm7 Barre Chord: Template for Minor 7th Barre Chords, 5th String

35
Introduction to Color Chords

36
Chords with Shared Treble Voices
The below chords share notes in the upper register that make them appealing to use in
songs. They offer a continuous treble line. One might hear these used in contemporary
acoustic church bands, as well as in some popular music where the acoustic guitar is
highlighted. They are commonly used in chord progressions in the key of G. With the
below chords, the I, IV, V, and vi chords are presented.

37
Major 7th Chords: Common Examples

38
General Chord Reference Page
Major Chords

Minor Chords

Dominant Seventh Chords

Minor Seventh Chords

Basic Diminished Chords


Bdim, Ddim, Fdim, Abdim Adim, Cdim, Eb dim, F#dim Bbdim, Dbdim, Edim, Gdim

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x The Guitar Chord Handbook (http://hdl.handle.net/1808/29433) provides
visuals for common open chords, as well as some barre and color chords.

x The Chord Progression Handbook (https://hdl.handle.net/1808/29434) maps


out more than 20 common chord progressions found in folk and popular music,
providing song examples.

x The third handbook, Strumming, Fingerpicking, and Hybrid Accompaniment


Patterns for Guitar (https://hdl.handle.net/1808/29435)facilitates detailed
development of strumming, muting, plucking, and combined skills with more than
150 exercises. Videos provide visual reinforcement for each
strumming/fingerpicking exercise.

x Videos for Strumming Patterns: Each strumming pattern has been video
recorded as a resource for you. These videos can be located at:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCZYIvXCKglMZHkCvJ9wqgd8cpC0eZHYd

Bill Matney, Ph.D., MT-BC is a professor in the music therapy program at the University
of Kansas. He has taught classes focusing on musicianship – primarily percussion and
guitar for music therapy and music education students – since 2006. He has authored
books, book chapters, and journal articles on the use of percussion in music therapy,
and brings a unique perspective on building skills on percussion, guitar, and piano. In
this set of visual and audio resources, Bill brings a perspective on teaching guitar that
focuses on practical skill building, seeking to develop each student's capacity for playing
in different styles and responding to different chord progressions.

Brenna Niemuth is an undergraduate music therapy major and guitar primary at the
University of Kansas. She demonstrates strong interest in developing guitar resources
for music therapy students and professionals.

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