Standard tuning: every chord and scale on the guitar fretboard

Standard tuning runs E A D G B E from the lowest string to the highest, mostly in fourths with one major third between the G and the B. That one irregular gap is why chord shapes change when they cross it. Most fretboard maps you meet assume this tuning first.

Open the fretboard

Triads

Major

Minor

Diminished

Augmented

Power and suspended chords

Power Chord

Suspended Second

Suspended Fourth

Dominant Seventh Suspended Fourth

Sixth and added-note chords

Sixth

Minor Sixth

Added Ninth

Seventh chords

Dominant Seventh

Major Seventh

Minor Seventh

Minor Major Seventh

Diminished Seventh

Half Diminished

Extended chords

Ninth

Major Ninth

Minor Ninth

Eleventh

Thirteenth

Altered dominants

Dominant Seventh Sharp Nine

Dominant Seventh Flat Nine

The major scale and its modes

Major

Dorian

Phrygian

Lydian

Mixolydian

Aeolian

Locrian

Pentatonic and blues scales

Pentatonic Minor

Pentatonic Major

Blues

Harmonic and melodic minor

Harmonic Minor

Melodic Minor (Ascending)

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