A chord on banjo

The A chord diagram on banjo, the notes it is built from, and the Alviena charts that use it.

The diagram

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The notes in A

E · A · C#

The chord is built from 3 distinct pitches. A shape may double them an octave apart: the same note then appears more than once without changing the chord.

The shape, string by string

1 muted string

StringFretNote
42E
32A
22C#
12E

Charts that use A

Other A chords

The same colour, on another root

A on other instruments