Giant Guitar Chord Charts
Guitar chord charts help kids really understand what they are doing - especially when they are GIGANTIC like these ones are!
Use these big and free printable guitar chord charts for your young students.
Perfect for beginners
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Put these in their music books
No more hunting through the back pages of guitar books -- I just print these basic chords out for all my new guitar students, punch holes in them, and arrange them alphabetically in the back of their binder.
From there, we can pull them out to place opposite a song with a tricky new chord.
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Put your own notes on these pages
I write on these sheets with a contrasting pen or pencil, marking in the correct finger numbers on the frets, and circling the appropriate strings when students are still playing "little chords."
If a sheet gets too messy, I just print out another!
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No need to use more than 3 strings
Especially for very young beginners, big-handed chords are discouraging, and it's nice to start with small, easy chords. (I should have placed these words onto the B & Bm chord chart, too, but I didn't.)
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Please scroll down the page for the download links.
Please scroll down the page for the download links.
Please scroll down the page for the download links.
The I & V chords on the same page
Here are my two favorite chords for beginners: "Baby" C and G7 (though I usually call them "little," not "baby!")
"What?!" I hear you saying. "These are BIG chords!" Yes, but leave some strings out for your beginning guitar players:
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Using only finger 1 for both of these chords, and strumming only strings 1, 2, and 3, a beginner can get an acceptable sound for a great many songs.
I like to "lean" finger one back onto string 1 when switching from little C to little G7, even though I ordinarily will tell young guitarists to shape their fingers as if they were "on pointe" like a ballet dancer.
The other easy chord group for beginners
D7 does not seem to be a very hard chord even for beginners, and it just so happens that finger 3 can slide down very nicely from fret 2 to fret 3, and make a "baby" G chord (by strumming only strings 1, 2, and 3):
The links to the guitar chord charts PDFs:
Download A & Am guitar chord charts
The I & V chord charts for beginners:
Download big easy beginner chords for guitar C & G7 chords
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Hi, I'm Dana! (Say that like "Anna".) I'm the owner of Music-for-Music-Teachers.com, and a newer site, SingTheBibleStory.com.
Like some of you, I've been playing the piano since early childhood, and have added a few other instruments along the way, plus an interest in arranging and composing music.
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