This chart sets out the common chord shapes for the four- or five-string banjo on a single sheet. Each row gives a fret position, from the first to the fifteenth, and each column a finger arrangement across the strings, with the string carrying the root note marked at the head of the column.

Read across from a position to find the chord produced by a given shape — majors, minors, sevenths, diminished, augmented and sixths are all covered. The chart applies to standard C tuning gCGBD and open G (sometimes referred to as elevated bass) tuning gDGBD.