Like the major chords, minor chords are used throughout every style of music. They’re also some of the easiest shapes to play. The chances are you learned a few minor chords in your first lessons. And ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Man playing electric guitar Over the last two columns, we looked at various ways to craft melodic solos over alternating relative ...

Today in extended chords 101, we look at 11th chords – both minor and major – and explain how these “harmonically dense” ...

Harmonic minor keys are used when writing chords. There is another version of the minor key known as the melodic minor. This is used when writing a melody. Each key signature has two possible keys.

In this frankly epic tutorial we're concentrating solely on chords and chordal ideas, and the following will act as a compendium of great chord fingerings. The audio examples start with simple chords ...