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The Charango, Strum First

Every page here speaks charango as a first language: what a rasgueo asks of a chord, which direction the hand moves on which eighth note, and the rests that land across every course at once.

Charango Chords The Rasgueos Scales Tuner

Free, playable references for the charango — every voicing charted for the GCEAE courses, with the stroke it wants alongside and every derived number recomputed in CI.

One Neck, Three Cells

One instrument covered deeply rather than four covered thinly: the five-course charango, plus the three rasgueo cells that turn its chords into rhythm.

Charango

  • Tuned GCEAE — the open courses spell A minor seventh
  • 5 doubled courses, a twin E an octave apart
  • The rhythm engine of Andean folk music

Huayño

  • Eight unbroken down-up strokes
  • No rest anywhere in the bar
  • The evenness teacher

K'antu

  • An upstroke pickup opens the bar
  • Two rests, both load-bearing
  • A downstroke close

Carnavalito

  • A doubled downstroke opens the bar
  • One declared rest
  • Pushes home on a downstroke, not an up

What Lives Here

Chords

Every key and quality charted course by course, frets and fingers named — the shape a rasgueo rakes.

Scales

Note maps across the five courses with every root marked, ready to be phrased as strummed runs and fills.

Fretboard Explorer

Light up any set of notes across the GCEAE neck, twin E and all.

Progressions

Each key's chord family, arranged for the rasgueo — see which two chords the loop leans on.

Exercises

Daily strumming and timing drills with tab and playback built in.

The Three Rasgueos

Huayño, k'antu, carnavalito — every cell recomputed stroke by stroke in CI, rests included.

Chord of the Day

The network's shared daily pick — walked into the one-bar figure its tones imply.

Free Tools

Tuner, metronome, theme builder — in the browser, no sign-up.

How It Works

1

Start From a Root

Pick a root and a quality — every charted voicing arrives on the GCEAE courses with its frets and fingers named, drawn for this neck and no other.

2

Read It Course by Course

Charts name what each course carries, scale maps mark every root, and the cell tables say which eighth is a downstroke, an upstroke, or a declared rest.

3

Set It Moving

Playback on every voicing, drills with tab and sound, and three computed cells to rake any chord through — a chord you can only hold is a chord you have not started strumming yet.

The Rasgueo's Home

Charango Warrior is the Warrior Network's deep home for the charango. On a charango the interesting question is rarely which chord — it is which direction the hand moves, and whether the twin E courses still agree once a fret changes one of them. So this site is built from the stroke outward: chords charted as the shape a rasgueo rakes, scales mapped as raw material for strummed lines, and every derived number recomputed in CI rather than copied from a book.

Charango Questions, Answered

More on the full FAQ page.

What makes Charango Warrior different from a general chord site?
Every page is written from the stroke inward: chords are charted as the shape a rasgueo rakes, scales are mapped as material for strummed lines, and the three cells are recomputed stroke by stroke in CI rather than copied from a book.
What tuning does this site use?
GCEAE, the standard the registry models — five doubled courses whose open pitch classes already spell an A minor seventh, with two courses sounding the same E an octave apart.
I play guitar. Will any of this carry over?
The left hand carries over quickly — the chord shapes chart cleanly against the real GCEAE courses. What is new is the right hand's job: a charango turns a chord into a fast alternating rasgueo across all five courses rather than a held strum, and the cell pages teach exactly that.
Do I need to read music to use this site?
No. Everything here is charts, tab, and playback — course numbers, fret numbers, and audio on every voicing and drill, so the ear can vet a shape before the fingers commit.
Does any of this cost money?
No — every chart, cell table, drill, and tool on Charango Warrior is free, with no ads, no account, and no upsell waiting at the end.