A Minor Guitar Chords Open Position Chord Chart
by Jay SkylerGuitar 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 Bmin7
5 ) - 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)
The A Natural Minor Scale
- Quality / Family:
- Minor
- Also Classified As:
- Diatonic Mode
- Church Mode
- Major Scale Mode
- Heptatonic
- Notes in Key of A Minor:
- A B C D E F G
- Scale Degrees:
- 1 2
3 4 56 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