Guitar · Minor chord

AmA Minor

  • Key: C Major
  • Easy
  • Popular
  • Open chord

Am is the A minor chord on guitar, made of the notes A · C · E.

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Other positions

Notes

  • A
  • C
  • E

Structure

  1. 1
  2. ♭3
  3. 5
Sound
Minor triad
Melancholic, introspective
Harmonic function
Tonic relative
Stands in for the tonic with a different color.

Harmonic field of C Major

DegreeChordFunction
ICTonic
iiDmSubdominant
iiiEmTonic relative
IVFSubdominant
VGDominant
viAmTonic relative
vii°BdimDominant

How to play

  1. 1Place your index finger on fret 1 of string 2.
  2. 2Place your middle finger on fret 2 of string 4.
  3. 3Place your ring finger on fret 2 of string 3.
  4. 4Let strings 5, 1 ring open.
  5. 5Don't play string 6.
  6. 6Strum from string 5 down.

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