Free Printable Blank Chord Diagram Paper — Guitar & Ukulele PDF
Empty fretboard grids for writing chord shapes: choose guitar (six strings) or ukulele (four), set rows and columns, and how many frets show in each box.
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Why use blank chord boxes?
Chord dictionaries show finished diagrams; a blank gridis for your own teaching handouts, songbooks, and transcription. Students retain fingerings better when they copy shapes into empty boxes, and teachers can quiz "draw D minor in three voicings" without printing licensed song pages.
Guitar vs ukulele layout
Guitar uses six vertical string lines (low E on the left in standard Western charts). Ukulele uses four strings with the same top-to-bottom fret idea. The thick top line represents the nut; add a numeral on the left if the whole shape is shifted up the neck (e.g. capo or higher-position voicing).
Filling in symbols by hand
- Dots for fingertips, X or O above strings for muted or open strings.
- Barres: connect dots with a curved arc or a thick horizontal stroke across the fret.
- Label chord names above each box — use pencil until the chart is final.
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Combine this with lyrics with chord lines for lead sheets, or TAB paper when you need rhythmic string-by-string writing instead of a single block diagram per chord.