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Blank Chord Chart PDF – Guitar, Ukulele & Bass
Blank Chord Chart PDF for Guitar, Ukulele and Bass
A blank chord chart is an empty grid showing the fretboard of a stringed instrument — six vertical lines for a guitar, four for ukulele or bass, five for banjo. Each box represents one chord position: mark the frets and strings to notate any chord shape. Choose your instrument below and download your printable PDF instantly.
Which instrument?
- Guitar (6 strings) – A4 – 13 rows × 6 columns of chord boxes on A4. The most common format for guitar chord sheets and chord dictionaries.
- Ukulele (4 strings) – A4 – 13 rows × 7 columns sized for a four-string fretboard. Works equally well for soprano, concert, or tenor ukulele.
- Bass Guitar (4 strings) – A4 – Same four-string grid, ideal for bass chord voicings and scale diagrams.
- Banjo (5 strings) – A4 – 9 rows × 6 columns for a five-string banjo fretboard.
- Guitar (6 strings) – Letter – Guitar chord grid formatted for US Letter paper (8.5 × 11 in).
How to use a blank chord chart
On each chord box, the horizontal lines are frets and the vertical lines are strings. Mark a dot on the intersection to show where to fret a note. An open circle above the box means the string is played open; an X means it is muted. Write the chord name above the box. Print a sheet, fill in your chord shapes in pencil, and you have a custom chord reference page.
How do I print it at the right size?
Printers shrink the page slightly by default, which makes every measurement on the sheet wrong. Turn scaling off and the spacing comes out exactly as you set it.
- Scale: 100% / Actual size
- Turn off "Fit to page"
- Paper: white 80 gsm
- Colour: black and white for crisp lines
Do I need Word for this?
No. A grid or ruling drawn as a table in Word changes size when it prints, because Word scales the page to your printer margins — so the spacing you set is not the spacing you get. The PDF here is fixed at the size you chose, which is the whole point of downloading one.
Can I put the grid inside a Word document?
Yes — download it as a transparent PNG and insert it as a picture or page background. Word, Google Docs and Slides all take it, and the spacing stays exactly as you set it here.
