Every style of music uses major chords - for many players, the first thing they learn is a handful of these essential shapes. Still, once you get ‘under the hood’ there’s a lot to learn, and it’s not ...

Country music is misunderstood by anyone who doesn’t truly worship it. Truly American, country music was once the binder among friends and foes in the back woods. Reaching across race and age, country ...

To get you started we’re looking at some chords in the guitar-friendly key of A. You’ve probably heard of a I-IV-V (one-four-five) progression - it’s a common blues chord sequence and its name tells ...

If there’s one thing you can do to take your songwriting to the next level, it’s getting to grips with new chords. Use our ...

We continue our series in open tunings with another ‘C’ tuning, but this is different to open Csus2 because the strings are tuned to a major chord, not a suspended sound – and that changes the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. There are two basic types of chords: major and minor. In their most simple form they have three ...