(Assuming 12 equally tempered notes with octave equivalency)
Unabridged Chord and Scale Glossary
A lot of sites say they have a list of all chords, but none comes close to this. An interactive database of over 350,000 chord and scale name variations for the 2049 possible note combinations, most of which noone will ever use, but also the important ones. If you find omissions, please let me know and I will add them.
The lists below have links to the guitar fingerings for the scales and arpeggios.
| Triads (3-note chords) | 4-note chords (including sevenths) | 5-note chords (including ninths) | 6-note chords (including elevenths) |
| 7-note chords (including thirteenths) | 8-note chords | 9-note chords | 10-note chords |
| 11-note chords | 12-note chord | Unison (1-note) | Intervals (2-note) |
Warning: Large files
By number of Notes (as above in one
chart)
The most important chords Mostly native to patterns from the major scale (the Church modes)
Additional important Jazz chords Mostly additional chords native to patterns from the harmonic minor or melodic minor scales, but not in the church modes.
From octatonic patterns
Possible embellishments for the most common chords:
| Major | Minor | Augmented | Diminished |
| 7 | m7 | 7#5 | m7b5 |
| Maj7 | mMaj7 | Maj7#5 | dim7 |
No root substitutions all chords
No root substitutions common chords
Players often leave out the notes of a chord to simplify complex
chord forms and to avoid interfering with the bass player.
No
Root/No Fifth Substitutions All Chords
No
Root/No Fifth Substitutions Common Chords
My old Learning chords section
List of all possible chords out of context (for search engines mostly)