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 ...

One worthwhile thing every beginner guitarist should learn is that there are two different useful fingerings for an open G chord, as shown in FIGURE 1. Either can be more advantageous, depending on ...

Early funk is often associated with the Godfather Of Soul James Brown, who helped pioneer this style of dance music in the late '60s and early '70s. The ubiquitous use of syncopation (playing on the ...

BEST OF 2021: Tired of using the same old shapes for your blues improvs? Learn these 10 chords and take your blues jams to the next level. Here we’re looking at some variations on basic ‘7’ chords (E7 ...