A Major Chord on Guitalele
Play A Major on Guitalele: diagrams, finger positions, intervals, and every voicing up and down the neck for this instrument.
The A Major chord is a bright, stable major triad — one of the first chords most players learn. It is built from the notes A, C#, E. This page shows how to play A Major on Guitalele with clear fretboard diagrams and suggested finger positions.
The A and E strings ring open in the lowest shape, with the remaining notes fretted at fret 1 over a 2-fret stretch. The root is the A string itself. It sounds from A2 up to A4.
Guitalele is tuned A–D–G–C–E–A, with 15 frets to work with. Guitar shapes work unchanged on guitalele — finger them exactly as charted; every shape sounds a perfect fourth higher than on guitar.
Browse alternate voicings to find the one that sits best under your fingers, then compare it with the other chord types built on A or explore the same shape in nearby keys. The diagrams list the notes in each voicing so you can connect the shape to the theory behind it.