Chords
Pick a root and a chord type and ScaleSpace shows the chord's notes across the whole neck or keyboard, and every playable shape with finger numbers. It works on guitar, bass, ukulele and piano, in any tuning and with a capo. Free, no sign-up, no ads.
Shapes for every instrument
Guitar and ukulele shapes are worked out for the tuning you choose, easiest first, with open strings, muted strings and barres marked. Bass gets the forms bass players actually use: root and 5th, root and 10th, root, 5th and 10th, and root, 7th and 10th. Piano gets every inversion with right and left-hand fingering.
Chord formulas
A chord's formula lists its notes as degrees of the major scale on its root. 1, 3 and 5 is a major chord; flatten the 3rd and it is minor.
| Chord | Symbol | Formula | Notes on C |
|---|---|---|---|
| major | C | 1 3 5 | C E G |
| minor | Cm | 1 b3 5 | C Eb G |
| dominant seventh | C7 | 1 3 5 b7 | C E G Bb |
| minor seventh | Cm7 | 1 b3 5 b7 | C Eb G Bb |
| major seventh | Cmaj7 | 1 3 5 7 | C E G B |
| power chord | C5 | 1 5 | C G |
| suspended fourth | Csus4 | 1 4 5 | C F G |
| suspended second | Csus2 | 1 2 5 | C D G |
| diminished | Cdim | 1 b3 b5 | C Eb Gb |
| major sixth | C6 | 1 3 5 6 | C E G A |
| minor sixth | Cm6 | 1 b3 5 6 | C Eb G A |
| added ninth | Cadd9 | 1 3 5 9 | C E G D |
| dominant ninth | C9 | 1 3 5 b7 9 | C E G Bb D |
| dominant seventh suspended fourth | C7sus4 | 1 4 5 b7 | C F G Bb |
| minor ninth | Cm9 | 1 b3 5 b7 9 | C Eb G Bb D |
| major ninth | Cmaj9 | 1 3 5 7 9 | C E G B D |
| half-diminished seventh | Cm7b5 | 1 b3 b5 b7 | C Eb Gb Bb |
| diminished seventh | Cdim7 | 1 b3 b5 bb7 | C Eb Gb Bbb |
| augmented | Caug | 1 3 #5 | C E G# |