The Chords in this section are the most popular and useful chords that sound good for playing all styles of music. Do not use 10,000 chords books. They contain 90%+ useless chords that are theoretically correct, but do not sound good, are hard to play and not systematic to memorize.


All chords shown here are always classified into 3 categories: Major, Minor or Dominant. The Dominant group includes tension building chords such as Dominant 7th, Diminished, Augmented, and Altered. Additionally, the chords are organized by "string set" - meaning, on which string the root note lies. There are 3 string sets (Low E root, A string root, and D string root).