Altered chords are chords that have been changed by having the pitch of one or more notes in the chord sharpened or flattened by a semitone. Altering a chord in this way can have a big effect on its ...

When you need to bring overly wild and far-ranging harmonic progressions into line, chord inversions should be among your first ports of call. In this walkthrough, we'll take a series of chords ...

Somewhere along the way, barre chords became the gold standard. For many songwriting guitarists, they’re seen as a kind of graduation from open chords, a sort of signal to the guitar world that you’ve ...