For the Irish bouzouki & the mandolin

Irish Bouzouki Chords

Every shape worked out on the neck. Trad voicings first.

Chord boxes for GDAD, GDAE and ADAD bouzouki, and mandolin, with the fingers to use and the open courses that ring. Nothing is copied from a chart: change the tuning and every shape is solved again.

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Free on iPhone, or the whole app free in your browser. It works offline after the first visit. Looking for one chord? See the chord charts.

DBouzouki · GDAD

All shapes →

D, the whole neck

The app searches every fret for shapes a hand can hold, then keeps the useful ones: open first, then each new position up the neck. Pick one and watch the fingers move.

Trad voicings first

The shape a session player reaches for leads every page: open courses ringing, a drone underneath, and the no-third chords (D5, Dsus) that sit under a tune in major or minor. Then every other way to play it, up the neck.

The tunings players use

GDAD
GDAE
ADAD
GDGD
Greek CFAD
Mandolin GDAE

Or your own four notes, with each course in unison or octaves. The shapes are solved for whatever is on your instrument.

Keys with drones

Every key in major, mixolydian, dorian and minor: its seven chords as boxes, the main three and the common session progressions, and which open courses ring in it. Hold a drone and hear the mode. Or read them here: D, G, D mixolydian, A dorian, E minor.

Chord finder

Tap the frets you're holding. It names the chord, offers the ones a note away, and lists the keys it belongs to.

A bouzouki tuner for your courses

It hears which course of your tuning you're playing, GDAD, GDAE, ADAD or your own, octave strings included, and shows how far off it is. Sound never leaves your phone. New to it? How to tune an Irish bouzouki.

Capo, counted for you

Put a capo on and every shape is worked out from it. Key pages say when a capo puts a tune in A or E under familiar G and D shapes.

Built for your hands

Every box shows which finger goes where, and only shapes a real hand can stretch to make the list. Left-handed mirrors every box. Tap any box to hear it.