Similarly, the sliding bass in the introduction to The Breeders’ hit ‘Cannonball’ was also never meant to be a semitone out ...

Sometimes you just need a chord that spooks the hell out of you, and that’s when you reach for something diminished.

When it comes to triads, you tend to know exactly where you are with the basic constructs of major or minor. Take the 3rd of ...

If failure is the mother of success – as the title of the recent single by The Wildhearts proclaimed – then success is surely ...

The fingering we are using for the D9 chord makes moving to the C/D chord (aka D9sus4) easy. Another key feature of this track is sliding into chords from a semitone below. This is a popular trick in ...

Expand your guitar vocab with chord ideas for Double Drop D, Open G, DADGAD, Open D and Open C tunings, favorite tunings for Keith Richards, Joni Mitchell, Jimmy Page and more ...