Voicing Finder

Type any chord and get shapes you can actually play. Not every fingering a computer can find — a hand-picked set, with the ones most guitarists already know first.

Chord

C7

C – E – G – B♭

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8,10,8,9,8,8

E-shape

x35353

A-shape

x3535x

A-shape

x,x,10,12,11,12

D-shape

x323xx

Shell, strings 5-4-3 — no 5th

8x89xx

Shell, strings 6-4-3 — no 5th

22 more hand-picked shapes for C7 in the full tool, of 28 in all — plus the note colours, the function labels, the left-handed boards and every other chord.

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The chord is fixed here. The full tool takes any chord and gives you its playable shapes — hand-picked rather than computer-generated, essentials first, in every position on the neck.

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The Chord Name Decoder and What Chord Is This? are free, and between them cover what a chord contains and what to call one.

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Learn to build these yourself

Every shape here comes from a handful of templates altered a note at a time. Learn the alterations and you won’t need the tool — you’ll build the chord you want wherever your hand happens to be.

Creating chord voicings with barre and shell chords

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Take the E-shape and A-shape barres as templates and alter them a note at a time — lower the third for a minor, the root on the 4th string for a seventh — and you can build any chord on the neck without looking one up.

How to instantly turn 5 chords into 500

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The idea underneath this tool: a shape is a template, and its name changes with where you put it. Learn the five and the whole neck opens up.

Related lessons

The CAGED System and Triads Simplified
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Where the triad shapes come from — three notes on three adjacent strings, in every inversion, all over the neck.
Chord name decoder ring
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Know what notes a chord name asks for, and the shapes stop being something to memorize.
Reverse engineering voicings: name that chord!
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The other direction — work out what to call a shape you already found under your fingers.