The general theme with these shapes is the dominant 7th sound, which is essentially a major chord plus a b7th. This is a great way of injecting some ‘blues’ flavour into your chord progressions. You ...

Guitar Lessons Pro launches a free Guitar Chord Chart for Beginners along with interactive downloadable guitar lessons, offe ...

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 ... Learn 16 of the best ...

This Van Halen/Brian May approach of using the open strings to give interesting slash chords is a great way to really milk the sound of each shape all across the fretboard. The basic chord progression ...

After mastering some basic chord shapes and some single-string runs, our guitar students strummed along with a Bob Seger song last week. This week, they'll get a little grungy.