Guitar skills: If there’s one thing you'll need to do to take your songwriting to the next level, it’s getting to grips with new chords. Use our acoustic guitar chord charts - from basic open chords ...

Indie guitar chords thrive on bending musical rules, blending open strings, modal flavors, and unexpected progressions to create a sound that’s both familiar and fresh. They’re about emotional ...

In this lesson, we're creating rhythm parts using chords that exploit the open strings. We'll make things simple by limiting our study here to major and minor triads. As you may have guessed from the ...

Utilising open strings can add new dimensions to basic chord progressions. This simple and effective technique has been used to great effect by players as diverse as Alex Lifeson, Jeff Buckley, The ...

Guitarist Allen Hinds shares 28 ways to refresh familiar chords using inventive voicings, inversions, and interval tweaks. His ideas blend jazz, fusion, and blues-rock sensibilities to create ...