Complex chords can contain lots of notes, sometimes as many as six or even more. This can make playing them quite a handful! Here’s the thing: top players only play the most important notes. If you’re ...

The word ‘diatonic’ simply means ‘within a key’, so a diatonic chord progression is a set of chords made up of notes from within a key signature When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Learning to play guitar is a difficult, fulfilling, and fun hobby. The web site Riffstation lets you crank that fun up to 11 by teaching you how to play a song exactly while the music video plays.

In my previous column, we looked at the difference between extended and altered chords, and I wanted to give some further examples and explanations of how altered chords work in practical terms. After ...

Known for his work with Was Not Was, Bonnie Raitt, Ringo Starr and others, Jacobs delivers a funk masterclass that gives you ...

ARLINGTON, Va. — Fort Bliss Soldier Recovery Unit guitar instructor Jim Leeah has only one question for recovering Soldiers considering guitar lessons. “How do you know that there is not a great ...

A good song is the sum of its parts, but that doesn’t necessarily mean a song’s quality comes down to how much instrumentation is packed into it. These four famous songs in country and rock prove that ...