How To Read Guitar Chord Charts

  1. This string is mute
  2. This string is played as an open string
  3. The vertical lines represent the strings
  4. The nut (where the strings touch the neck and join the headstock)
  5. This is where you put your fingers
  6. The numbers indicate which finger to use on each string (1 is the index finger)
  7. The horizontal lines represent the frets