Learn the basics of guitar chords, including major and minor types, chord progressions, and tips for beginners to start ...

We're breaking 22 essential chords into three areas – beginner guitar chords, folk and blues. There's plenty of inspiration ...

Isbell sympathizes with newbie players struggling with them, but discusses why they’re a vital songwriting tool ...

Barre chords are a key part of funk and disco because a simple ‘lift off’ technique with your fret hand allows you to mute all of the strings - perfect for those momentary rhythmic pauses and for ...

Terms such as ‘altered’ and ‘extended’ chords are relatively simple to explain. Extended chords add other notes from the scale to the existing root-3rd-5th triad (for example, C-E-G), so if we add a ...

From "A Hard Day's Night" to "Won't Get Fooled Again," these immortal guitar chords prove that sometimes, it's not the melody or chorus that's the most memorable part of the song.

More evidence of the brilliance of piano chords transcribed to guitar comes courtesy of The Daily Mail, of all things. Slide that 3-2-0 up to 4-3-1 (keeping the Eb on the B string the same) for a ...

The legendary songwriter Harlan Howard once said that all one needs to write a good country song is “Three chords and the truth.” That’s as true now as it was in the ‘50s.