Guitar Hacks: Making the Connection Between Chords and Scales
This little guitar hack is particularly useful if you’re at that stage in your learning where you want to know […]
Guitar Hacks for Soloing Over Complicated Chords
If you’re comfortable soloing over major/minor and seventh chords, but things get a little shaky when you have to come […]
5 Steps to Knowing Which Chords Are In Any Key
When you come to write your own material as a solo artist, band member, composer, or anything else, you’re going […]
Holdsworthian Diatonic Chords
The way Allan Holdsworth thought about chords as being groups of (usually 4) notes from a scale blew my mind […]
Guitar Chords and Language Learning
Chords and Language LearningYou’ve probably heard the phrase, ‘learning music is like learning a language’, bandied around by musicians, and […]
How to Come Up with Funk Chords on the Fly
My first guitar teacher was and still is a great funk player. I’d go see him play at the local […]
How to See Music Theory on the Guitar Fretboard
For the most part I taught myself to play guitar. I spent a year at Music College and had a […]
How to Hack the CAGED System
It all started back in Music College in the early 2000s, at the ACM in Guildford (UK) to be precise, […]
The Quick Guide to Barre Chords and Beyond
Barre chords are almost a rite of passage after learning all the open chords. I see a lot of beginners […]
Complicated Chords with Memorable Shapes
You might be somewhat put-off by learning the so-called advanced chords with big, scary names like Cmaj13(#11) and so on, […]