Some of the Best Guitar Riffs of the 21st Century (so far) have been written by The White Stripes, Queens of the Stone Age, ...

From The Doobie Brothers to The Smiths, James Brown to Metallica, 7th barre chords are fundamental for playing with more color and sophistication ...

Use our acoustic guitar chord charts - from basic open chords to the daddy of altered tunings ... It's good to experiment with arpeggios and explore other notes around the chords you know. This ...

Bass Week: As bass players we naturally have to know our chords, and ideally a fair bit about harmony and chord progressions ...

They all have one thing in common: riffs. A guitar riff is the hook of a song. It’s a sequence of notes and chords that gives a track an identity. It can open a song, and be repeated throughout ...

All the chords built on other notes in the scale of C are minor, except chord VII - the notes B – D – F, which is diminished. When a seventh is added to a chord this is known as a seventh chord.

As a self-taught musician, Frank Zappa embraced unconventionallity in every bit of his creative process, making his genius a ...

Notable uses include Kurt Cobain's main guitar hook on "Come as You Are," Andy Summers' sparse chords on "Walking on ... the volume of plucked or strummed notes. Reducing the difference between ...

Extended chords add other notes from the scale to the existing root ... almost dissonant voicing. On guitar we’d struggle because we only have six strings, plus a limited reach and number ...

April White - Author, The Divorce Colony: How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier In 1969, the New York Times described Joe Cocker’s air guitar as “unusual ...