Welcome to the latest installment of Chord by Chord, a series designed to build your understanding of harmony and the fretboard. The chords you’ve learned so far—C, G, and D—have all been major. This week you’ll be focusing on the first minor chord in the series, A minor.
You have learned that a major triad has three notes—the root, the third, and the fifth. A minor triad contains the same three notes, except the third is flatted, or lowered by a half step. An A minor triad consists of the notes A (root), C (minor third), and E (fifth), as depicted in Example 1.
In music notation, a minor chord is usually denoted with a lowercase m or min after a note name. You’ll find the most common Am voicing in Example 2. The doubled notes here are A and E; there is only one C.
A Minor Guitar Chord
In Example 3a, you’ll find the most common Am barre chord, in fifth position, with three As, two Es, and one C. Examples 3b–C show some derivations on this shape, each using a barre only on the top three strings and Ex. 3b taking advantage of the open A string.
For some less common Am voicings, check out Examples 4a–4b. These shapes are identical, except Ex. 4a contains the note A on string 4, while Ex. 4b includes a C on that string.
Example 5a is based on the same shape as Ex. 1, but the fretted notes are played an octave (12 frets) higher, and Example 5b offers a further variation. Both of these examples are best played on a guitar whose neck joins the body at the 14th fret, like an OM or modern dreadnought.
Easy Chords For Beginners
If you’ve been keeping up with these videos, you should know various ways to play C, G, and D major chords; how to switch between C–G and G–D; and now, different ways of doing an A minor chord. One famous song that makes extensive use of an A minor chord is Bill Withers’ “Ain’t No Sunshine.” In the next lesson, I’ll show you how to play your second minor chord, Em.
Kate Koenig is a singer-songwriter, music teacher, and music journalist based in Brooklyn, New York. They have been a regular contributor to Acoustic Guitar since 2017.The A minor chord is one of the most common and popular chords on the guitar. The open Am chord is one of the first chords that most guitarists learn, and it has been used in countless songs across many genres.
The open A minor chord and the open E minor chord are easily the two most common minor chords on the guitar.
Am Guitar Chord
The standard way to play the A minor chord is in the open position. This is actually one of the most commonly used guitar chords of all, and one of the first that most guitarists learn.
The easy version of the A minor chord is very similar to the standard open A minor chord (above), but with the fourth string omitted. This means that only the first three strings are used and only two fingers are needed. Most people go ahead and learn the standard A minor chord shape to begin with, but this slightly easier version can be useful if you’re looking for an easier version.
The instructions above are step by step instructions for playing the common A minor chord shape. Forming the chord through step by step instructions is a great way of ensuring that you are interpreting the chord diagram correctly.
Substitute Chords For The Key Of G
The Am chord can be played as a barre chord by playing a root 6 barre chord shape and starting on the 5
Playing triads is a great way of exploring the minor chord and the guitar fretboard more generally. By arranging the notes of the chord systematically using permutations (root position, first inversion, second inversion), interesting and unique shapes and voicings are created. The three different voicings for the A minor triad are:
The following shapes are alternative ways of playing the A minor chord shape. They’re not the most common Am shapes, but used enough to include here as interesting alternatives.
How To Read Guitar Chord Charts
Most A minor chords with extensions can be used as a substitute for the A minor chord. For example, Am9, Am11 and Am6 can often be used to add colour and emotion to the A minor chord.
For more interesting substitutions, playing variations of the C chord (which is the relative Major of A minor), such as C6, C69, Cmaj9 etc. can be used effectively as a substitute for the A minor chord.
The most common and effective scales that can be used to solo/improvise over the A minor chord, or to create melodies for the purposes of song writing are:
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