She wowed Sonny Landreth and Carlos Santana called her the “future” – Erja Lyytinen shares her 6 go-to slide licks for ...

Moving the order of notes around within a chord can take a progression in new directions without changing the actual chords.

From The Doobie Brothers to The Smiths, James Brown to Metallica, 7th barre chords are fundamental for playing with more color and sophistication ...

A new analysis of the 52 million chords used across 680,000 songs found that - to the expectation of anyone ...

Mike Campbell wrote 'The Boys Of Summer' then Tom Petty passed on it. How would the song have turned out if Tom Petty liked ...

Learn the guitar style of the most expressive and accomplished playing The Beatle would ever commit to tape ...

(In open D tuning, all the guitar strings are one of the three notes in a D major chord, from EADGBE to DADF#AD.) Interestingly, someone stole the guitar Fogerty kept tuned to open D from the ...

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 ...

Again, keeping your wrist in close to the guitar body really helps with articulation. This descending double stop line is based around a D major chord. Notice how upstrokes are used to accent these.

As well as classical composers David Brophy includes Dire Straits, BB King and Enda Walsh among his selections ...

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