Use our acoustic guitar chord charts - from basic open chords to the daddy of altered tunings and many points between - to build your musical vocabulary and hone your own voice on the acoustic guitar.

“With this tuning, it’s like a six-string bass. If you play a chord [plays Cmaj9], that chord shape, if you take it to the top four strings [DGCF in perfect 4ths], you would have to switch the shape ...

In blues ‘dominant’ 7 chords (A7 or D7 for example) are more common than basic major, minor and sus chords. The A7, D7 and E9 shapes shown here are all you need for a 12-bar blues improv in the key of ...