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 ...

Guitar lessons: The CAGED system is a well known approach that makes it very easy to access any chord across the whole neck. Today, we’re applying it to major and minor chords. If you already know the ...

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” ...

When it comes to guitar chords, it all begins with basic ones that are called either major (use just the letter of the chord, eg E for E major) or minor (reduced to the letter plus m, eg Em for E ...

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.

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 ...