A# Major Chord on 12-String Guitar
Play A# Major on 12-String Guitar: 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#, D, F. This page shows how to play A# Major on 12-String Guitar with clear fretboard diagrams and suggested finger positions.
The lowest shape sits at fret 1 and spans 3 frets, with no open strings in it. The E string stays silent, so 5 of 6 sound. A# falls on the A string. It sounds from A#2 up to F4. 5 voicings are charted, the highest starting at fret 10.
12-String Guitar is strung in six courses of two, the lower four paired an octave apart, so each stopped note here sounds as two — which is why the shape rings thicker than the same grip on a single-strung instrument.
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.