Use our acoustic guitar chord charts - from basic open chords to the daddy of altered tunings and many points between - to build your musical vocabulary and hone your own voice on the acoustic guitar.

Electricity? Overrated… ‘Real’ guitarists know that a guitar’s genuine excitement is best earned via the more personal connection of the player plus the resonant wooden body of an acoustic. Decades ...

In this lesson inspired by Molly Tuttle, Trey Hensley and the O.G. of acoustic folk playing Maybelle Carter, we'll make one guitar sound like two with arrangements alive with rhythm and melody ...

How Dire Straits went from the pubs of London to become one of the biggest bands of the 1980s ...

And tonally too, you put an acoustic guitar with certain chords behind a song ... Changes to My Lyrics' Explore See latest videos, charts and news Future ...

Dire Straits were one of the most unlikely success stories of the 80s, making 1985’s world-beating Brothers In Arms album before guitarist and leader Mark Knopfler ended the band at the height of ...

Thirty years ago, Dan Bejar picked up an acoustic guitar and started performing as ... “This was about balladry and getting back into chord progressions,” he says. “I was probably thinking ...

As pop idol, hit-making solo artist, and with the most star-studded CV of any sideman, the affable Welshman offers up his ...

Over the next decade, they became one of the most successful writing teams in popular music, with John selling millions of ...

Along with the pristine acoustic riffs ... Smile,” with its forlorn and yet infectious chord progression, punctuated by flange guitar and bluesy electric piano. Lyrically, the song sticks ...

The acoustic guitar is a classic but old instrument, and these three artists made it cool in the era of electric guitar rock music.