A little knowledge with naming conventions goes a long way to understanding complex chords and how they might sound ...

In the early '90s grunge took the world by storm. A stream of bands from the US Pacific Northwest, and especially Seattle, arrived on the music scene with their stripped-back, raw sounds, emotive ...

To avoid sounding the idle sixth string when you play this chord, bring your thumb around the back of the neck so that the tip of it just touches the string. This is a useful blues shape that can ...

Listen up: scales aren’t just torture devices invented by guitar teachers... When you use a scale, say, C major, you are playing ‘in the key of C’. The word ‘diatonic’ simply means ‘within a key’, so ...