But even chord listsĪs big as this are unlikely to be able to offer shapes for any chord you want to look up. Should contain at least a couple of thousand shapes to make it worth considering. And 15 chord types doesn't cover a lot of ground. The more shapes you have to choose from, the more chances you have ofįinding the chord shape that suits your needs. Not a bad start, but I'm interested in finding as many shapes as Such a list might cover 15īasic chord types (e.g major, minor, 7, m7, maj7, sus4, sus2, aug, dim, 5, 6, m6, 9, m9, 11) in allġ2 keys, with 3 shapes for each chord. Possible guitar chords (and I'm only talking about standard tuning here). The first thing to realise is that there are a LOT OF GUITAR CHORDS.Ī list containing 500 chords may sound like a lot, but it only represents a tiny fraction of all A lot of the more interesting and unusual chordĭid you know that there are well over 100 playable shapes for an Em7 chord? Here are just a few of them:Ġ70000 020000 0 10 12 12 0 0 050000 070007 Most chord types there are lots of different ways of playing that chord - often 10, 20 or 30 shapes,īut you'd be lucky to find more than a handful of these. If you get more than three shapes for each type, you are doing pretty well! The trouble is, for How many different chord shapes does it suggest? More than one? More than three?Ĭhord dictionaries often suggest just a few different shapes for each chord type. Let's say you strike lucky, and the chord dictionary you are using does have a few shapes for, say,īm11.
Problem 2: limited number of chord shapes for each chord name
You would be lucky to find jazz-type chords (e.g 7-5, m7-5,ħ#9, 7-9 etc) or chords with altered bass notes (A/C#, Bm7/F#, G/D etc). Most have fewer than 20 basic chord types, so Some may have a bigger chord vocabulary, including chords like add2, add4, 9, maj9, m9, 11, m11 and so on,Īll the chord lists and chord dictionaries I've seen (both those on the net and those in books) have a fairly limited set of chords that they include shapes for. Many chord lists only cover the most basic chord types (e.g major, minor, 7, m7, maj7, sus4, sus2). The chances are, you'd be struggling to find a single shape for most of these chords. With any chord list or chord dictionary, try looking up chords such as Bm11, A/C#, F#7add4, Cmaj9, Am7-5. Read on to see why most chord lists just don't do the job, or go here to look at my Method (a little applied chord theory!) that allows you to find chord shapes for literally any chord you come across. To have a single list containing "all guitar chords" or even "all the main guitar chords", and offers a This page points out some of the problems with using chord dictionaries, explains why it is not possible Why is it so hard to find a comprehensive list of guitar chords on the web? Guitar chords: information about chord dictionaries, lists of guitar chords
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