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A guitar chord chart is a shorthand way of understanding which frets of which strings you should place your fingers on in order to play a specific chord. This diagram is displayed as a grid, consisting of vertical lines that represent the six strings of a guitar and horizontal lines that represent the frets on your guitar’s fretboard. The thicker black bar at the top of the diagram represents the guitar’s nut, giving you a visual starting point to discern the appropriate frets where you should place your fingers.
Whether you’re a beginner guitarist or a seasoned player, learning how to read a guitar chord chart can help you more easily play a variety of chords and chord shapes.
The vertical lines of a chord chart represent each of the six strings of a guitar. From lowest to highest, they are:
While each vertical line of a chord chart represents each of the six strings, the horizontal lines of a chord chart represent the frets of a guitar. Each horizontal line is an indicator of which fret of each string you should place your finger on in order to play a given chord.
Now that you know what the vertical and horizontal lines mean on a chord chart, it’s time to get down to what the numbers inside each of the dots on the corresponding strings and frets mean. Whenever you see a number inside a dot on a given correspondence point on a chord chart, it’s an indicator of what finger you should use to place on a given fret or across a series of frets in order to sound the correct note. Each of the given numbers inside a dot on a given fret line corresponds, as follows:
When looking at a chord chart, you may see “X’s and “O”s above the thick black line that represents the nut of your guitar. It’s not a wonky version of Tic-Tac-Toe. Rather, it’s shorthand for which strings you should strum and which strings you should mute when playing a given chord. An “X” above a string indicates that the string should be muted when strumming a chord. An “O” above a string means that the string should be played in the open position (without a finger on any of the frets aligned with that string) in a given chord. These shorthand notations of “X’s and “O’s can help you easily see which strings you’ll need to omit from a strumming pattern, which strings are played in an open position, as well as which strings need you to place a finger on a given fret in order to strum a specific chord.
