About the Academy – practice area
This is where you practice between lessons: pick a chord and see how to play it, work on strumming patterns, and drill chord changes at a tempo that suits you.
Pick a chord
Click a chord to see where to press. The numbers in the circles are the fingers of your fretting hand.
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Chords by note
Each row is one note's 'family': major, minor and 7th. Easy to remember – A, Am and A7 are all A.
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CC
DD
EE
FF
GG
AA
BB
Sharps (#) and flats (♭)
The same barre shapes, just moved along the neck. If you know F#m, you also know C#m and G#m.
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F sharpF#
C sharpC#
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G sharpG#
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B flatB♭
E flatE♭
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A flatA♭
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Power chords
Only two or three strings. The sound of rock – and great practice for the fretting hand.
Legend
- Open string – play without pressing
- ×String not played / muted
- 2Finger – 1 index, 2 middle, 3 ring, 4 pinky
- Barre – one finger presses several strings
- Easy · Medium · Barre
- ★Start here
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