Learn the basics of guitar chords, including major and minor types, chord progressions, and tips for beginners to start ...

Isbell sympathizes with newbie players struggling with them, but discusses why they’re a vital songwriting tool ...

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 ...

C7, for instance, means a C major chord with a b7th (Bb). C9 (see Example 3) contains the b7th plus the 9th (D), so there’s ...

For slash chord notation, remember that the first letter is the triad and the second letter is the bass note. Therefore the A/B chord would be an A major triad (A C# E) with a B bass note. The other ...

Terms such as ‘altered’ and ‘extended’ chords are relatively simple to explain. Extended chords add other notes from the scale to the existing root-3rd-5th triad (for example, C-E-G), so if we add a ...

The usual chords in that key would be G, Am, Bm, C, D, D7, and Em and their variations. The most common “next-door-neighbor” chords in G would be F and A7 (frequent guests in the house of G).