Aren’t I a bit tied to D minor though? Well, in some ways, that’s the point. However, it’s actually surprisingly easy find D major, with that bluesy minor-to-major third accessed by hammering onto the ...

In C was composed in 1964 by the Californian composer Terry Riley – the piece changed the face of classical music. Riley showed that using nothing but the seemingly simple chord of C major was ...

In the Alice In Chains track Rooster, guitarist Jerry Cantrell starts with some four-string variations of F# and A barre chords all played on the D, G, B and E strings. He alternates between barring ...

We can consider the B♭o7 to be a non-diatonic chord to the extent that we’re following the D Major scale. However, that chord lives comfortably in the 6th Diminished scale, as shown in Figure 2.

The top three notes give us the b9th (Eb), the 3rd (F#) and the 13th (B). This Gmaj9 gives a nice finishing chord, meaning Examples 3, 4 and 5 in sequence give us the II-V-I progression, a classic ...