A chord on mandolin
The A chord diagram on mandolin, the notes it is built from, and the Alviena charts that use it.
The diagram
Songs to play with the A chord on mandolin
- La Zoubida — Vincent Lagaf'
- A Nos Actes Manqués — Jean-Jacques Goldman
- Lucie — Pascal Obispo
- Pour Que Tu M'aimes Encore — Céline Dion
- I Want To Break Free — Queen
- Whenever, Wherever — Shakira
- Fat Bottomed Girls — Queen
- Parce Qu'on Vient De Loin — Corneille
- Billie Jean — Michael Jackson
- Awake My Soul — Mumford & Sons
- 99 Luftballons — Nena
- Ces Idées La — Louis Bertignac
Which chords go with A
Across the sheets in the catalogue, A most often appears alongside these chords. Learn them together and you can play a whole song.
The notes in A
A · E · 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
| String | Fret | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | 2 | A |
| 3 | 2 | E |
| 2 | 4 | C# |
| 1 | 5 | A |