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Choose a chord with the controls, or click notes directly on the fretboard to build, change, or experiment with chords. Choose another voicing from the list, edit any string, or use −1 and +1 to move the complete shape one fret.
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Recognized shapes show their chord name and related voicings. Unrecognized shapes are labeled as unclassified sonorities.
About these voicings
Fingering suggestions are a starting point. Results marked Study may be difficult or impossible as complete chords, but remain useful for chord-tone study, arpeggios, and soloing.
- ★Spread triad
- An undoubled three-note major or minor triad whose lowest and highest notes span more than one octave.
- ★Shell voicing
- A three-note seventh-chord voicing containing the root, 3rd, and 7th while omitting the 5th. Here, shells use the lower four strings with the root on string 6 or 5.
- ★Rootless
- A voicing that omits the root but retains enough characteristic tones to imply the chord.
Categories appear only when matching voicings exist. Bb shows Spread triads; try Bb7 for Shell or Rootless.
