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 ...

The idea of this technique is to rearrange these five shapes as barre chords and move them around the fretboard. Sounds tough? Well, no. It’s actually easy to learn because all the shapes link ...

Guitar skills: When it comes to chord progressions, you don’t have to break new ground to write great songs. In fact, some basic chord progressions have been used repeatedly in hundreds of pop and ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Getty Images Bass Week: As bass players we naturally have to know our chords, and ideally ...

Conventional wisdom dictates that a well-written song will stand up even when reduced to simple chords on acoustic guitar. But at some point, we’ve all heard songs in which complex or unusual chord ...

Bass Week: As bass players we naturally have to know our chords, and ideally a fair bit about harmony and chord progressions in general, as we are the ones banging out the root notes! But there are ...