7 Diagram Guitar Charts: Standard U.S. Paper Sizes:

7 Diagram Guitar Charts: International Paper Sizes:

New Blank Guitar Charts- A4 Paper with Margins New Blank Guitar Charts- A4 Paper Full Bleed (i.e. no Margins) Click the picture to open the PDF in a browser. To save to disk, right click and save.
Make your own custom guitar chord, scale, and arpeggio charts with these high resolution blank guitar fretboard diagrams. This is the fourth and best version I have made to date.

Important! Please Read!

The way to use these is to download the correct margin size for your printer, or if you are unsure, download the Full Bleed and be sure to select "Resize to Fit Margins" in your PDF printing application. But as this concept is beyond most guitarists, maybe download the 1 inch margins so you're pretty much guarunteed to not chop the sides off. These are 100% Vector illustrations and can be resized as big as the Moon with absolutely no loss in quality!

What makes these better?

1. Full necks - you always see the whole neck when you look at the guitar, the diagrams should match that so you can memorize material faster
2. Properly sized frets and Strings - We all know the frets by the nut are in fact wider apart than those by the body, and the bass strings are thicker than the treble strings. But you couldn't tell that from looking at about half of the blank guitar frame papers available.
   
3. DOTS!- Marker dots, position dots, fretboard inlays, whatever you want to call them, they help us get a clear picture in our head of the patterns on the neck. Once we see it in our heads, we never have to look at the neck!
4. 7 Frames per Page- If you don't know by now, you will soon, most things in music theory come in 7. Commercial guitar frame paper comes in 4 or 6 frames per page. You do the math.

If you are struggling with some crappy tab printed in misaligned ASCII characters in Microsoft™ Notepad (and you know what I'm talking about), try charting your chords and scales out and see the difference it makes.

These are free for private use and I don't mind independent teachers using them as long as no modifications are made to the PDF and they are not being sold for profit. These may not be distributed in any way or stored on another server (except for legitimate search engine caching of metadata ). All links should use the link text in the boxes below.

References

Aebersold, Jamey, and Jamey Aebersold Jazz. How to Play Jazz and Improvise. V. 1 V. 1 . New Albany, IN: Jamey Aebersold Jazz, 1992.

Bay, William. Mel Bays Complete Book of Guitar Chords, Scales and Arpeggios . Pacific, Mo: M. Bay, 1992.

Berle, Arnie, and Ronnie Ball. Chords & Progressions for Jazz & Popular Guitar . New York: Amsco Publications: Exclusive distributor, Music Sales Corp, 1986.

Damian, Jon, and Jonathan Feist. The Guitarists Guide to Composing and Improvising . Workshop / Berklee Press. Boston, MA: Milwaukee, Wis: Berklee Press; Distributed by H. Leonard Corp, 2001.

Latarski, Don. Arpeggios for Guitar: A New Approach to Arpeggios and Their Relationship to Chords and Scales, for the Rock, Blues and Jazz Guitarist . Van Nuys, CA.: Alfred, 1990.

Nothiin [sic] but blues for all musicians play-a-long book and stereo CD set. New Albany: Jamey Aebersold Jazz.

Perricone, Jack. Melody in Songwriting: Tools and Techniques for Writing Hit Songs . Berklee Guide. Boston, MA: Milwaukee, Wis: Berklee Press; Distributed by Hal Leonard, 2000.

Roth, Arlen. Hot Guitar . San Francisco: Emeryville, CA: Milwaukee, WI: Miller Freeman Books; Distributed to the book trade in the U.S. and Canada by Publishers Group West; Distributed to the music trade in the U.S. and Canada by Hal Leonard Pub, 1996.

Scales & Modes in the Beginning: Created Especially for Guitarists . Fullerton, CA; Winona, MN: Centerstream Publications; Exclusively distributed by Hal Leonard Pub. Corp., 1982.

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