Is there a guitar chord "print/font/type"?

[Nimiety]

This could be a silly question, but I would like to print out the chords I don't know, to have handy beside whatever I'm trying to learn.

My hand-written scribbly drawings leave room for improvement.

I can find chord charts, and chord blanks, but not a chord "printer".

It's not a big deal. I can/will print off a page of blanks and fill them in. That will definitely by an improvement over my scribbles. But if I could have the entire chord neatly printed, it would be handy.

[coopman]

For font's you could try this:

http://www.fontsaddict.com/font/search/guitar-chords

==> ACCORDS.ttf is available to download for Windows & MAC OS X

That still might be a bit fiddly ... there are many PDF references an-line as well. Try searching by genre. Like here for example:

https://lessons.com/guitar-lessons/g...r-chords-chart

Or, you could go all out and get something like Band-In-A-Box, or Guitar Pro ... then you could do anything

-John

[rstaight]

I use 2 different apps. one is called Guitar Chords. This is probably the one I use the most.

The other is called AllChords.

[coopman]

Hey Nim - one other thought, I'd be cautious about getting something that has too many chords. I got my first guitar really cheap, from someone that bought it along with a book of 3000+ chords. He'd randomly open the book and try a chord ... but never apparently the same one twice, and gave up saying guitar was too confusing :-(

Best to learn a few at a time, and generally in the context of a song. SLow and steady, you'll never need the cheat sheet ... except for the occasional

G Dominant 9 Flat 5 chord that comes along ;-)

attached ...

For what it's worth ...

[rstaight]

Originally Posted by coopman

Hey Nim - one other thought, I'd be cautious about getting something that has too many chords. I got my first guitar really cheap, from someone that bought it along with a book of 3000+ chords. He'd randomly open the book and try a chord ... but never apparently the same one twice, and gave up saying guitar was too confusing :-(

Best to learn a few at a time, and generally in the context of a song. SLow and steady, you'll never need the cheat sheet ... except for the occasional

G Dominant 9 Flat 5 chord that comes along ;-)

attached ...

For what it's worth ...

Have to agree here. I played for years not knowing a Cadd9. Then in the last couple of years almost everything I wanted to learn seems to have a Cadd9.

That's when I found the apps.

[Nimiety]

Thank you everyone! I will check those out tomorrow.

[Wolfram]

I'm not sure exactly what you're looking for - I don't think you'll find a font with a glyph for each and every possible chord - there would be thousands and thousands and it would be impossible to find the correct one.

However, you should look into the Standard Music Font Layout (SMuFL), which provides component parts for music notation software, including chord charts. You can find links to fonts to download here.

However, to actually create chord charts you will need some sort of software - for example, Guitar Pro enables you to create chord charts (scroll down to see the section on Chords).

Hope this helps...

Cheers,
David

[captain_jack]

there are a couple of websites that let you generate pretty chord charts:

This one is pretty manual:
https://chordpic.com

This one lets you just select a chord and it generates an image:
https://chordgenerator.net

I used chord generator a few times when I was working on a song with new (to me cords). I'd copy and paste into a document editor then print out a chord sheet.

[Nimiety]

Thanks for more references!

Yes, I am learning chords in relation to songs I'm 'playing'. I know most of the basic chords in the easier keys, but am not good with slash chords. Need pictures.

I'm good, at least for the foreseeable future, in playing the easiest, most comfortable version of a chord, even if it's not the best sounding/most correct.

And the A/C# might not be doable, for my hands. My fingers just don't seem to be able to stretch like that. Might need years of practice...

[donlyn]

Nimiety,

I have a different suggestion for you, to be used in conjunction with learning new chords. Many years ago when I was in college, I took an elective course on Music Theory. In which I learned a lot about the nuts and bolts of music and a whole lot more. While this was a general introductory course, it covered in some detail things like keys, chord formations, and basic reading and writing music. Even some topics like 'passing' notes. The final project was to submit a piano piece and the instructor would play it in front of the class (of about 16). The instructor was the school chorale and music chair, so this was not necessarily that rudimentary. (Nor was it essential to be a great piece of music.) This was a non-pressure class (pass in your project, you didn't fail), but it was one of the most useful classes I ever took, given my interest in music. And that includes the programming courses I took 20 years ago at age 50 so I could become a computer programmer.

Here's the point. I can translate notes from sheet music and make sense of them, to include what notes make up a given chord, what the chord should be, and see what the author may have left out of the chord when hinting in the current instance. I do a lot of arrangement for my pieces, and will use practical applications to plug in a chord where needed. Sometimes this includes making up the chord to fit the harmony and positioning. And allowing for transposition of keys and scales, there is pretty much nothing I can't figure out before having to look it up in a book.

This doesn't mean I didn't study guitar chord fingerings, but means that I don't spend a lot of time memorizing arcane chord formations. So if you know the theory behind the music, you can recognize and create where needed. That is, if you know the difference between a seventh and a major seventh, you can do that quickly and efficiently. Want to hint at a chord during a melody, you know what notes from which to chose, especially those that will produce easy fingerings and future position changes in the piece. Want to change the song key, maybe in the middle of the song by raising the key a full step ? (A common practice; e.g. "My Girl" by the Temptations goes from 'C' to 'D'.)

I do not know if there is an all-encompassing book or on-line course somewhere on this, but any knowledge on the subject will be useful to acquire. And will also give you a good feeling why a given chord is (or can be) used. Want to know why so many doo-wop songs are C-Am-F-G ? And why they sound so good with those chords in whatever key you choose ? (E.g. "Handy Man" by Jimmy Jones, famously covered by James Taylor.)

A little knowledge can be a fun thing.

Don
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[fpuhan]

I bought a rubber stamp.

About $5.00

[Goat Mick]

Originally Posted by fpuhan

I bought a rubber stamp.

About $5.00

Just getting ready to post the same thing. Here's one on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/Guitar-Chord-...ag=googhydr-20

[Nimiety]

Stamps!!! Never even occurred to me! That would be very handy!

Thanks guys!

[wguitar]

Perhaps this will help. I use it all the time to cut and paste individual chord diagrams into my songs (usually in MS Word). You can also resize them to your preference after they are pasted.

https://www.chordie.com/chords.php

All the best,

Cheers!