Chords for the Flamenco Guitar

Start from a root, then pick the quality; every shape comes with how a cycle of counts carries it.

The chord reference for the flamenco guitar. Choose a root, then any of 62 qualities, for the shapes and for how the toque carries a chord through the counts of a palo.

The guitar is the toque: the toque: it states the compás, marks the accents with the strumming hand, and closes each cycle on the chord the palo comes home to. A grip below is held for a run of counts rather than a bar — the strumming hand sounds it harder on the accented counts and lighter between them, so one shape can carry most of a cycle.

Drawn for EADGBE across 6 strings, the tuning a nylon-strung guitar shares with a steel-strung one: open grips first, movable ones up the neck, a play button under each.