The D Major chord is one of the most common and popular chords on the guitar. The open D chord is one of the first chords that most guitarists learn, and it has been used in countless songs across many genres.
The instructions above are step by step instructions for playing the most common D Major chord shape, which is the open chord D. These instructions can actually be super helpful when you feel like you’re interpreting the shape incorrectly. By going through the D chord instructions step by step, you can verify that you’re playing the chord correctly.
The D chord can be played as a barre chord by playing a root 6 barre chord shape and starting on the 10
Playing Chords All Over The Fretboard — Pathfinder Guitar
Most of the time, when we play the D chord, we play the standard shapes, such as the open position D and the barre chord shapes. However, learning the strict root position and inverted triads is a great way of exploring subtle and interesting variations that exist across the fretboard. The D Major triad can be voiced in the following three ways:
The following shapes are alternative ways of playing the D Major chord shape. They’re not the most common D shapes, but used enough to include here as interesting alternatives.
The D chord can often be substituted with the D sus 4 chord, the D sus 2 chord and the D add 9 chord. The D chord can also be used itself as a substitute for more complicated chords, such as the D Major 7 chord, the D7 chord, and other extension chords which have D as the root note (it can’t be used in place of minor chords though!).
Learn To Play D Major Chords Up And Down The Neck
The most common and effective scales that can be used to solo/improvise over the D Major chord, or to create melodies for the purposes of song writing are:Ah, the open D chord. A true classic, featured in about eight gazillion rock and pop songs. One of the things that makes this chord fun to play is that it’s easy to play a couple of variations by adding or removing fingers. More on that below; first, let’s learn how to play this thing.
As shown here, when played in open position, the D major chord is played with the 1st and 3rd fingers both on the second fret, and with the 3rd finger on the third fret. Remember to keep your thumb behind the neck in the correct position. (Seethis lesson on the Em chordto learn the basic hand position for all chords.)
As usual, you should play the notes with the tips of your fingers to avoid any buzzing or muting of notes. Also, try to keep your fingertips fairly close together instead of spreading them out across the E and B strings. The next photo shows an example of what I mean.
D Guitar Chord
Compare the spacing of the fingers in this photo with the one above. Notice how the 1st finger (playing the second fret of the G string) is far away from the second fret. It’s actually closer to the first fret. You generally want to avoid this kind of finger placement because it’s much more likely to result in buzzing (due to the fact that there is so much space between the finger and the point where the string crosses over the fret). Whenever possible, you want to play close to the fret, like the way the 2nd finger is playing close to the second fret on the E string here.
Now that you know how to play this chord in open position, if you’re feeling ambitious, we can take a look at two common variations that add just a little bit of mojo to the regular version of the chord. (Or you can just focus on the D chord for now and come back to these variations later.) Technically, these aren’t really variations—they’re different chords—but they’re often used as embellishments for the D major chord when it’s played in the open position as shown above.
This chord (pronounced “D suss four”) gets its name from the fact that you take the 3rd note of the D major scale and raise it up to the 4th note instead. Explaining this any more requires some discussion of music theory, so I’ll skip that for now. But the important point is that the fingering changes slightly—you add your pinky to the 3rd fret of the first string, like so:
How To Play A D Chord
Notice (in the photo on the right) that the 2nd finger stays where it is on the second fret; you don’t lift it up off the fretboard. So in other words, you keep playing the D chord and you just add the 4th finger (pinky) in front of the 2nd finger. This way, you can easily add or remove it to alter the regular chord.
As I mentioned above, it’s very common to embellish the D chord by adding the pinky or removing the 2nd finger (making the Dsus4 and Dsus2, respectively). For example, here’s a little snippet from “Stairway to Heaven” that shows this:
As you can see in this clip, the 1st and 3rd fingers stay put on the fretboard while the middle finger and pinky move on and off to form the different chords. After you’ve gotten the D major chord down, try playing around with these variations to see how they feel (and sound).
How To Play The D Chord On Guitar
Well that about wraps it up for the D chord. As you might already know, there are plenty of other ways to play a D chord on the guitar, in different locations on the neck. But this is the basic open chord that you want to learn first so you can whip it out around the campfire and strum along with any song under the sun. Well…you’ll need to learn some other chords too, but this is an important one to have in your arsenal early on. Good luck and keep practicing.
Compare the spacing of the fingers in this photo with the one above. Notice how the 1st finger (playing the second fret of the G string) is far away from the second fret. It’s actually closer to the first fret. You generally want to avoid this kind of finger placement because it’s much more likely to result in buzzing (due to the fact that there is so much space between the finger and the point where the string crosses over the fret). Whenever possible, you want to play close to the fret, like the way the 2nd finger is playing close to the second fret on the E string here.
Now that you know how to play this chord in open position, if you’re feeling ambitious, we can take a look at two common variations that add just a little bit of mojo to the regular version of the chord. (Or you can just focus on the D chord for now and come back to these variations later.) Technically, these aren’t really variations—they’re different chords—but they’re often used as embellishments for the D major chord when it’s played in the open position as shown above.
This chord (pronounced “D suss four”) gets its name from the fact that you take the 3rd note of the D major scale and raise it up to the 4th note instead. Explaining this any more requires some discussion of music theory, so I’ll skip that for now. But the important point is that the fingering changes slightly—you add your pinky to the 3rd fret of the first string, like so:
How To Play A D Chord
Notice (in the photo on the right) that the 2nd finger stays where it is on the second fret; you don’t lift it up off the fretboard. So in other words, you keep playing the D chord and you just add the 4th finger (pinky) in front of the 2nd finger. This way, you can easily add or remove it to alter the regular chord.
As I mentioned above, it’s very common to embellish the D chord by adding the pinky or removing the 2nd finger (making the Dsus4 and Dsus2, respectively). For example, here’s a little snippet from “Stairway to Heaven” that shows this:
As you can see in this clip, the 1st and 3rd fingers stay put on the fretboard while the middle finger and pinky move on and off to form the different chords. After you’ve gotten the D major chord down, try playing around with these variations to see how they feel (and sound).
How To Play The D Chord On Guitar
Well that about wraps it up for the D chord. As you might already know, there are plenty of other ways to play a D chord on the guitar, in different locations on the neck. But this is the basic open chord that you want to learn first so you can whip it out around the campfire and strum along with any song under the sun. Well…you’ll need to learn some other chords too, but this is an important one to have in your arsenal early on. Good luck and keep practicing.
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