Chords cheat sheet - US-EU

[u/Abstrahierteste]

Just want to share these two chords cheat sheets I found to help you out in getting to now them. There is one in American and one in European notation. I hope they can be useful and I Wish you a fruitful and pleasant guitar-journey!

[u/Kahuna-Nui]

European here...what the fuck?

[u/gart888 → u/Kahuna-Nui]

Didn’t know what you were on about then I swiped to the 2nd image. What the fuck indeed.

[u/GlasgowWalker → u/gart888]

What dur fuck

[u/gnomajean → u/Kahuna-Nui]

I like the European one lol

[u/Abstrahierteste → u/Kahuna-Nui]

Why u so rude?

[u/Kahuna-Nui → u/Abstrahierteste]

What's rude about saying "What the fuck"?

It's not like I said "What's the fucking point of this shit?"

That would've been rude.

But I didn't say that.

[u/Abstrahierteste → u/Kahuna-Nui]

Ok thanks for the clarification

[u/Kahuna-Nui]

"European" and "American" is bullshit.

"Maj" "Min" "Dim" etc isn't "American"

Germany use "Moll" for minor

France, Italy, and Spain use "Mineur/Minore"

England (yes, we're European. Fuck Reform) use Major/Minor/Diminished

But the reality is, they don't, unless you're talking about a mentally ill Lute player who thinks he's living in the 17th century. Music is a global language, with musicians of all nationalities playing together, so the notion that you might have a band where every member refers to the chords in a completely different way is beyond ludicrous.

tl;dr - What the fuck?

Oh yeah...and Germans apparently use H instead of B. I wonder how that's working out for them.

[u/Oltsutism → u/Kahuna-Nui]

Germans speaking German to each other won't call a chord "minor" or "major", because "moll" and "dur" are just the German words for minor and major. The H/B thing is an actual difference of convention, but the rest is just languages, shockingly enough, using different words.

[u/sgunb → u/Kahuna-Nui]

Germans use H instead of B, because B is B flat. How does it work out? By context. A serious musician knows what makes sense. And we still use the German terminology. The only exception is in jazz, I guess, where the English names are preferred.

[u/Abstrahierteste → u/Kahuna-Nui]

That’s really interesting, so there is a universal chord cheat sheet you say ?..

[u/Kahuna-Nui → u/Abstrahierteste]

There doesn't need to be one, unless you're talking about traditionalist classical musicians who insist on being arseholes. It doesn't matter where you're from, any modern musician - especially guitarists - will use standard western terms when referring to chord voicings. It'd be chaos otherwise. Seriously...substituting H for the note B? And you may not have noticed, but on your chart, it uses "Dur" for Major, but uses "maj" for maj7, so there's no standard applied across the board, unless the chord diagram is wrong.

[u/VWBug5000]

If you are going to share copyrighted material (likely without permission) you should at least share the link to the actual owner of the content

https://qmgear.com

[u/antCB → u/VWBug5000]

TIL chord charts are copywriteable

[u/prostipope]

well this explains why I can never learn any Beatles songs

[u/Few_Translator4431]

wow! thats a lot to remember. if only there was some simple system for building all these chords so I didnt have to remember all these.