Printable Guitar Notes Chart

Left-handed guitar notes chart

Every chart on this page has a left-handed version. The neck is mirrored, with the nut on the right, so it matches a left-handed guitar's fretboard. String order stays the same: the thin high E is at the top.

All notes, sharps (PDF) All notes, flats (PDF) Natural notes only (PDF)

For 24 frets, black and white or A4, choose Left-handed in the picker at the top.

How to read the guitar fretboard chart

Each guitar fretboard notes PDF is a neck notes chart: the guitar neck drawn flat, with the name of the note on every string at every fret.

• The strings run across the page, thinnest (the high E) at the top, the way tab draws them. The guitar string notes page explains the order.
• The column left of the thick nut line is the open strings. Fret numbers run along the bottom; the dots at 3, 5, 7, 9 and 12 match the markers on most guitars.
• Each fret raises a note by one semitone. Most natural notes have a sharp or flat between them; E–F and B–C do not.
• At fret 12 the notes start again, one octave higher. That is why the second row of the 24-fret chart matches the first.

To test yourself without the chart, try a guitar notes quiz.

Which chart should I print?

• Natural notes only: the seven notes without sharps and flats, which mark their places as small dots. The least crowded chart.
• Sharps or flats: the same notes under two names; C♯ and D♭ are the same fret. Choose the spelling your songs or teacher use.
• 12 or 24 frets: 12 frets already shows every note. Print 24 if you play high up the neck.
• Black and white: saves color ink; sharps and flats are grey.
• Letter or A4: Letter for the US and Canada, A4 almost everywhere else.