In this frankly epic tutorial we're concentrating solely on chords and chordal ideas, and the following will act as a compendium of great chord fingerings. The audio examples start with simple chords ...

Every style of music uses major chords - for many players ... a three-note shape with the notes , it is called a ‘triad’. A lot of chords have more than three notes. No surprises there - the guitar ...

The ‘happiest’ sounding of the modes, the Ionian is identical to the major scale, so it’s highly likely you’re already ...

The guitar is one of the most popular ... to play over dominant 7th chords and major triads, with the major pentatonic (R-2-3-5-6) another great scale to employ in major keys.

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