Often when discussing songwriting, we divide it into its two main elements, words and music. But just as lyrics contain a multitude of sub-categories and considerations, so does music. It contains the ...

Building a lo-fi arrangement which really sticks in a listener's head requires a bit of theoretical thinking When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

Discover a wealth of dominant 7th, diminished and chromatically colored chords to bring variety and sophistication to your playing ...

He'd been playing piano for years, yet some chord names still caused him to freeze. Instead of grinding through boring exercises, we built a single musical pattern that covers every major, minor, ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. If you’re at a stage in your playing journey where you find yourself fed up of how your chords ...

Years ago, songwriting legend Harlan Howard made the famous statement, “Country music is three chords and the truth.” That used to be pretty accurate, but even when he said that, he was generalizing.

Somewhere along the way, barre chords became the gold standard. For many songwriting guitarists, they’re seen as a kind of graduation from open chords, a sort of signal to the guitar world that you’ve ...