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Open position guitar chords

These are the basic chords, the ones beginners should concentrate on. Learning these by rote is probably the best way to go in the beginning - once you've gotten into barre chords, you'll be ready to start thinking about these chords as individual notes.

The notes shown in squares are the 'key notes' - the ones that give the chord its name. For an A chord, the A notes are squares. Knowing where these notes are in chords can help you learn the fingerboard.

The major chords

ACDEFG

The minor chords

AmDmEm

The seventh chords

A7B7C7D7E7G7

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