Appendix B

Chord Chart

This appendix functions as a quick reference to the chords on the piano and guitar. It covers all the keys and shows each key’s chords to the 7th degree. We list the piano chords followed by the guitar chords.

The tricky thing about diagramming guitar chords is that the same chord can be built in many ways, in many different places on the neck. To make things easier, we only include chords that don’t go beyond the upper seven frets of the guitar neck.

For piano, the keys to be played in the chord are shown in gray. For the guitar, black dots show you where to put your fingers on the frets. An “X” above a string means you don’t play that string. An “O” above a string stands for “open,” meaning you play the string but don’t fret it. Also, for each guitar chord diagram, the pitches for each open (non-fretted) string are, from left to right, (low) E, A, D, G, B, (high) E.