D chord on mandolin

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

The diagram

Songs to play with the D chord on mandolin

Which chords go with D

Across the sheets in the catalogue, D most often appears alongside these chords. Learn them together and you can play a whole song.

The notes in D

D · A · F#

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

2 open strings · 1 muted string

StringFretNote
3openD
2openA
12F#

Other D chords

The same colour, on another root

D on other instruments