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How to Play the F Augmented Chord on Guitar

F Augmented Chord Overview

Notes

F-A-C♯

Interval Build & Degrees

I-III-♯V (Root, Major Third, and Sharp Fifth)

Tab

X-8-7-6-6-X (X-F-C#-A-F-X)

F Augmented Step by Step Instructions

Here is how you play F Augmented:

1. Place your ring finger on the eighth fret of the fifth string
2. Place your middle finger on the seventh fret of the fourth string
3. Barre your index finger across the sixth fret of the third and second string
4. Do not play the sixth or first string
5. Strum from the fifth string

Common F Augmented Voicings on Guitar

F Augmented (6th string root)

13-12-11-10-X-X

F Augmented First Inversion

X-X-X-2-2-1

F Augmented Second Inversion

X-X-X-6-6-5

Famous Songs That Use the F Augmented Chord

  • Imagine by John Lennon
  • Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen

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