Capo
Where to capo for A minor
Put the capo at fret 5 and play A minor using E minor shapes. That is the easiest of the eight positions ranked below, and it is what most players reach for. Against playing A minor open, it drops the mean difficulty of the key's seven chords from 3.4 to 3.4 and gains 0 ringing open strings.
You want A. Capo 5 and play in E.
19 open stringsdifficulty 3.4
All eight positions, ranked
Each row transposes A minor down by that many frets to find the shapes your hand would actually make, then scores the best voicing of all seven chords — fewer fingers, less stretch, closer to the nut, fewer muted strings. Lower is easier. Standard tuning (E2 A2 D3 G3 B3 E4).
What you are playing
The seven chords of A minor are Am, Bdim, C, Dm, Em, F, G — the ones the ranking above is scored against. Their diagrams are on the A minor key page.