When Allan Holdsworth played chords, it could look downright bemusing and somewhat physically demanding; what’s more, how did he even come up with that stuff in the first place? Even before discovering Holdsworth myself, I…
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I was going to call this lesson something like, ‘the 28 most important guitar chords to know’, because knowing the following 28 diatonic chord extensions will have you covered in most comping situations; in fact,…
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This is a great one to easily generate a Lydian sound over a major 7 chord by using none other than a guitarist’s best friend: the minor pentatonic scale, which is a great way to…
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In Part 7 of our series on how to learn the fretboard, we turn our attention to major chords and scales on our journey to learning the fretboard, which for me means becoming self-sufficient by…
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Let’s continue our analysis by looking at more complex chords and their corresponding intervals. Minor 7 chords contain the intervals 1, ♭3, 5, ♭7 as you can see below. Let’s take a look at our…
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You’ve reached the turning point! If you’ve been practicing the material in the previous parts, and depending on how long you’ve been playing, you’ll most likely have to fight with yourself NOT to revert to…
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Continuing our series on slightly more advanced open chords, you’ll find plenty of options for probably the first chord you learned: G. There’s a ton of open G chords available, especially of the major variety…
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If you’re following our series of open chords you probably never even considered, the F and F# ones, most of which you may never actually need, are a great workout for your fretting hand. I’ve…
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If you liked the previous post on C and D open chords, in this one we tackle some finger-twisting open chords in both Eb and E – probably the king of open chords on the…
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I’m sure you remember the first five or so chords you learned on guitar, and I’m willing to bet they were open chords. You most likely then moved on to barre chords after negociating the…
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