This is a root-fifth diad, but everyone calls them 'power chords'. In a chord chart, it would be notated as G5. The last step is to make it sound cool. It's a moveable shape common in rock and metal - ...

The first thing I thought when I saw the chart (diagram 1) was, “Wow, that’s not ‘three chords and the truth!’ Maybe 20 chords and the truth.” ...

Use our acoustic guitar chord charts - from basic open chords to the daddy of altered tunings and many points between - to build your musical vocabulary and hone your own voice on the acoustic guitar.