If we play this shape with a first finger barre on the 2nd fret and leave the open sixth string ringing on the bottom, then a lush minor 11 chord is created. This is the chord that was used for that ...

Every player is aware of the minor pentatonic, but not everyone knows how to make the most of it. These examples – in the style of some prolific pentatonic players – will help you master the shape eve ...

In guitar circles, describing a chord as ‘G’ without any other information would usually mean a G major chord. Once we get ...

When it comes to guitar chords, it all begins with basic ones that are called either major (use just the letter of the chord, eg E for E major) or minor (reduced to the letter plus m, eg Em for E ...

Guitar lessons: You’d be forgiven for thinking that you’d use the minor scale to construct minor 7th chords, but that’s not quite how it works. All scales and chords are compared to the major scale, ...