What’s on the Guitar: Open Chords poster
11 entries in 3 groups.
Fret numbers, low E string to high E. 0 = open, X = do not play.
- Major: E – 0 2 2 1 0 0, A – X 0 2 2 2 0, D – X X 0 2 3 2, G – 3 2 0 0 0 3, C – X 3 2…
- Minor: Em – 0 2 2 0 0 0, Am – X 0 2 2 1 0, Dm – X X 0 2 3 1
- What these unlock: G · C · D – thousands of songs, Am · F · C · G – thousands more, E…
Em is E with two fingers lifted. Am is A moved down one string. The shapes repeat.
Questions about the Guitar: Open Chords poster
- What’s on the Guitar: Open Chords poster?
- 11 entries in 3 groups. Fret numbers, low E string to high E. 0 = open, X = do not play. Major: E – 0 2 2 1 0 0, A – X 0 2 2 2 0, D – X X 0 2 3 2, G – 3 2 0 0 0 3, C – X 3 2…; Minor: Em – 0 2 2 0 0 0, Am – X 0 2 2 1 0, Dm – X X 0 2 3 1; What these unlock: G · C · D – thousands of songs, Am · F · C · G – thousands more, E…. Em is E with two fingers lifted. Am is A moved down one string. The shapes repeat.
- Who is the Guitar: Open Chords poster for?
- Guitar: Open Chords belongs to the Music section rather than to a school year, because music is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning instruments can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Guitar: Open Chords poster?
- Learn E, A and D first — the other five are small changes to those hand shapes. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Guitar: Open Chords belongs on the wall where that music work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Guitar: Open Chords?
- Bass Guitar, The Brass Family and Cello Basics sit alongside Guitar: Open Chords in the Music section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Bass GuitarThe Brass FamilyCello Basics
- Is the Guitar: Open Chords poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Guitar: Open Chords downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Music section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Guitar: Open Chords poster print at?
- Guitar: Open Chords is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Guitar: Open Chords loses nothing.Printing guide
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