When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. And if the idea of learning a scale is off-putting, step this way – we can do it through chord ...

If you only ever learn one scale, then it has to be the major scale. If you know how this one works then you open the door to understanding how chords are built, what chord names mean, how scales and ...

Terms such as ‘altered’ and ‘extended’ chords are relatively simple to explain. Extended chords add other notes from the scale to the existing root-3rd-5th triad (for example, C-E-G), so if we add a ...

With the intermediate status, one has learned some basic chords and strum patterns so those initial thrills are gone, and now the interest lies with further technical proficiency, melodic fluency, and ...

Whether you call these solo ideas minor blues or embellished pentatonic/blues scale, the effect is the same, freeing you up ...

Noel Gallagher doesn't need the credit as a great lead player, but he knew when he was hearing a guitar craftsman at work.