Terms such as ‘altered’ and ‘extended’ chords are relatively simple to explain. Extended chords add other notes from the scale to the existing root-3rd-5th triad (for example, C-E-G), so if we add a ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. We can make our chords more interesting by adding extra notes… but not just any. So far in this ...

Remember “I’d like to teach the world to sing…in perfect harmony?” Roger Cook wrote that famous Coke commercial some years back. Well, I’d like to teach songwriting guitar-players more about ...

When you think of U2, and The Edge specifically, you often think of huge soundscapes, a wall of guitars and enough delay to drown a stadium full of screaming fans…. But what happens when you turn the ...

All the chords built on other notes in the scale of C are minor, except chord VII - the notes B – D – F, which is diminished. When a seventh is added to a chord this is known as a seventh chord. The ...

All the chords built on other notes in the scale of C are minor, except chord VII - the notes B – D – F, which is diminished. When a seventh is added to a chord this is known as a seventh chord. The ...