Am chord on guitar
A minor
Am is a minor chord with three notes: A, C and E. Learn it first as an open shape: two open strings and three fingers on the frets. Below: where each finger goes, which strings to skip and one more way to play it.
Strum it and Lark tells you if it is right. The chord detector is free and listens through your mic.
How to play it
- Index on the B string, fret 1
- Middle on the D string, fret 2
- Ring on the G string, fret 2
The number in each note head is the finger: 1 index, 2 middle, 3 ring, 4 pinky.
Strings to skip
Skip the low E string and strum from the A string down.
- Shape
- Open shape
- Fingers
- Threeindex, middle and ring
- Strings played
- FiveA, D, G, B and high e
- Open strings
- Twothe A and high e strings
- Lowest note
- A2the root, on the A string
- Frets
- x 0 2 2 1 0low E to high e, x means skip it
The notes in Am
- Aroot
- Cminor third
- Eperfect fifth
A minor chord is the root, a minor third and a perfect fifth. The only difference from the major chord is the third, one fret lower. C is the minor third, three frets above the root. E is the perfect fifth, seven frets above the root.
String by string
- high e string: E4perfect fifth
- B string: C4minor third
- G string: A3root
- D string: E3perfect fifth
- A string: A2root
- low E string: not played
Every note of Am is in this shape, some of them twice.
Another way to play it
- Barre at fret 55 7 7 5 5 5Root on the low E string.
Songs in Lark with Am
Three songs in the library strum Am. Open one for the full chord sheet, then play it with Lark and every chord gets checked.
Related chords
Other A chords
Relative major
The relative major of Am is C. The A natural minor scale uses the same seven notes as the C major scale.
Strum it and Lark tells you if it is right.
Open the chord detector, play Am and Lark names the chord it hears, with the notes in it. In the app, the chord book has all 111 chords, string by string.