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 ...

As guitar players, we rely on shapes and patterns – consciously or not. This includes both scales and chords. Some chord shapes are described as 'movable', meaning they can be relocated to anywhere on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cameron Mizell is a freelance musician in New York where he performs as a sideman, leads his own jazz trio, teaches guitar lessons, and advocates for musicians through MusicianWages.com. For more ...