A minor piano chord - Am
The A minor chord is a 3-note chord consisting of the notes A, C and E.
You can see these notes highlighted in the interactive piano chart below.
The chord itself is often abbreviated as Am.
Interactive piano diagram for the A minor chord
Extended Chords
Chords that are a superset of Am. The chords include more notes but always A, C and E.
Reduced chords
Chords that are a subset of Am. These contain less notes but all of them are included in Am.
Scales with Am
Below you find all scales that include Am:
- minor
- major blues
- minor blues
- melodic minor
- harmonic minor
- dorian
- phrygian
- vietnamese 1
- pelog
- hirajoshi
- minor pentatonic
- minor six pentatonic
- flat three pentatonic
- minor #7M pentatonic
- minor hexatonic
- augmented
- dorian b2
- augmented heptatonic
- dorian #4
- lydian diminished
- balinese
- neopolitan major
- hungarian minor
- hungarian major
- flamenco
- todi raga
- lydian #9
- spanish heptatonic
- bebop minor
- bebop locrian
- minor bebop
- minor six diminished
- half-whole diminished
- kafi raga
- composite blues
- messiaen's mode #3
- messiaen's mode #7
- chromatic
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A minor piano chord chart image
In case you prefer a non-interactive variant of the chord chart, we've embedded a PNG image below that shows the notes for the the Am chord. Feel free to save or share the image as needed.
