Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mark Knopfler is a dab hand at incorporating chord shapes in his lead playing. While scales are without doubt an essential part of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Close up of a woman playing an acoustic guitar Let’s be clear: there’s no such thing as an ‘acoustic guitar chord’. If a guitar ...

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 ...

Guitar Skills: Paradoxically, one of the greatest challenges faced by the novice chord substitutionist is the minimal groove-driven vamp. There might only be a single chord, or perhaps even just the ...

Take it from someone who has played at the guitar for over 20 years: reading sheet music can be a big stumbling block to musical enjoyment. Playing by ear is somewhat unreliable, tablature only works ...