Open chords. If you've recently starting playing guitar you’ve probably already tried some of the most common open chords (so called because they include un-fretted or ‘open’ strings), such ...

As they ring against the fretted notes, the open strings are crucial to the sound and feel of these chords. Practise each chord first by strumming, then picking each string individually to check that ...

Tom Petty often doesn’t gravitate towards too many unusual chords, but in the track Into The Great Wide Open you hear the EmMaj7 chord. This is an E Minor chord with a maj7 interval added. This is an ...

Blues chords. In blues ‘dominant’ 7 chords (A7 or D7 for example) are more common than basic major, minor and sus chords. The A7, D7 and E9 shapes shown here are all you need for a 12-bar ...