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 ...

But there are many different ways to play chords on the bass guitar – and they’re not ... so don’t get too stuck trying to play the chord shapes. Normally, we’d start by playing the ...

Credit: Graham Wiltshire/Redferns/Getty Images Open G tuning is an alternate tuning favored by Keith Richards and requires the guitar to be ... Here are five chord shapes you need to learn in ...

not the guitar-friendly chord shape you're playing. With a capo at the 7th fret, the C major chord shape is transformed to G major. The trick is to know where the root notes are in standard chords ...

While putting a capo on your guitar technically raises the pitch, it also means you can use more familiar chord shapes to play difficult songs. Additionally, transposing the song you're playing is ...