D5 chord on guitar
D power chord
D5 is a power chord with two notes: D and A. Learn it first as an open shape: one open string and two fingers on the frets. Below: where each finger goes, which strings to skip and two more ways 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 G string, fret 2
- Ring on the B string, fret 3
The number in each note head is the finger: 1 index, 2 middle, 3 ring, 4 pinky.
Strings to skip
Play only the D, G and B strings. Keep the low E, A and high e strings silent.
- Shape
- Open shape
- Fingers
- Twoindex and ring
- Strings played
- ThreeD, G and B
- Open strings
- Onethe D string
- Lowest note
- D3the root, on the D string
- Frets
- x x 0 2 3 xlow E to high e, x means skip it
The notes in D5
- Droot
- Aperfect fifth
A power chord is only the root and the perfect fifth. With no third, it is neither major nor minor. A is the perfect fifth, seven frets above the root.
String by string
- high e string: not played
- B string: D4root
- G string: A3perfect fifth
- D string: D3root
- A string: not played
- low E string: not played
Every note of D5 is in this shape, some of them twice.
Other ways to play it
- At fret 5x 5 7 7 x xRoot on the A string.
- At fret 1010 12 12 x x xRoot on the low E string.
Related chords
All 111 chords in the chartStrum it and Lark tells you if it is right.
Open the chord detector, play D5 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.