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A Minor Guitar Chords Open Position Chord Chart
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A Minor Guitar Chords Open Position Chord Chart

Guitar Lesson Summary & Chart Explanation

Harmonized Scale of A Natural Minor Guitar Chords: Open Position Chord Chart


A Harmonized Scale is a scale that is played with chords (or arpeggios) built on each note of the scale. Unless otherwise specified, we assume that only notes in the scale are used to form the chords. Chord Scale is a somewhat confusing slang term for Harmonized Scale.

Open Position
Chord Forms in this Chart:

  • A Minor Chord (A- or Am)
  • B Half-Diminished Chord (BØ or Bmin75)
  • C Major Chord (C)
  • D Minor Chord (D-7 or Dm7)
  • E Minor Chord (E-7 or Em7)
  • F Major 7th Chord (F∆7 or FM7)
  • G Dominant Seventh Chord (G7)
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The A Natural Minor Scale

Quality / Family:
Minor
Also Classified As:
  1. Diatonic Mode
  2. Church Mode
  3. Major Scale Mode
  4. Heptatonic
Notes in Key of A Minor:
A B C D E F G
Scale Degrees:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Alternative Names:
A Pure Minor
A Aeolian Mode
A Minor
Is a Mode of:
All Seven Diatonic Modes
Important Modes:
The Major Scale is built on the bIII
The Dorian Minor is Built on the IV
The Spanish Minor is built on the V

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