F major has one flat and a warm, rounded sound; it is a comfortable key for voices and horns and a common one in soul and gospel. Its chords are F, Gm, Am, B♭, C, Dm and E°. D minor is the relative minor and F minor the parallel minor. On guitar the F chord is the famous first barre chord, which keeps F major more at home on the piano.
The chords of F major
Seven chords, one on each note of the scale. The three major ones, F, B♭ and C, carry most songs.
F is sounding: F, A and C.
F major
FGAB♭CDE
D minor
DEFGAB♭C
Make your own in F major
The generator, set to F major. Lock the chords you like, generate the rest, then download it as MIDI.
Chord names with spaces, up to 16.
More in and around F major
- F major: scale, chords and key signature
- D minor chord progressions, its relative minor
- F minor chord progressions, its parallel minor
- Major chord progressions
- The I–V–vi–IV progression
- The I–IV–V progression
- The ii–V–I progression
- Move these chords to another key: the chord transposer
- Which key is your song in? The key finder
Piano sounds by the Salamander Grand Piano (Alexander Holm), CC BY 3.0.
