In this lesson, we're creating rhythm parts using chords that exploit the open strings. We'll make things simple by limiting our study here to major and minor triads. As you may have guessed from the ...

Guitar lessons: You’d be forgiven for thinking that you’d use the minor scale to construct minor 7th chords, but that’s not quite how it works. All scales and chords are compared to the major scale, ...

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Outside of about three lessons as a teenager, I have never had any real guitar instruction. Like most of my friends in high school, I just learned a few chords, and played around with it. As I grew ...

With a handful of Grammy wins under his belt – and the instantly recognisable Red Eye Les Paul under his fingers – southern rock great Jason Isbell knows what it takes to master the electric guitar.

There have been about 17,354 threads like this one recently. Search them out. But basically, take a few intro lessons to learn the instrument and it's basics like tuning and chords, then read a few ...