Mandolin: Chords for a Country Arrangement

62 qualities, every root — pick one below for the shape and the job this chair does with it.

The chord reference for this chair. Pick a root, then any of 62 qualities, and get the shapes plus the thing a chord chart never tells you: what this chair does with the chord once the arrangement is running.

The mandolin chair carries the chop on the backbeat — a closed, muted chord landing where a snare would, and a chop is a chord with the ring taken out of it — closed shapes only, damped the instant they sound, landing where a snare would.

Every shape below is drawn for GDAE, 4 courses, with the open shapes first and the movable ones up the neck after them, and each one plays back so you can hear it before it goes on a record.