When it comes to guitar chords, it all begins with basic … through to the chugging distorted guitar chords and roaring vocals later on …

… early days of grappling with guitar chords at the age of 15 …

… , with an occasional wave of guitar chords or jittery notes adding an …

In my previous column, we looked at the difference between extended and altered chords, and I wanted to give some further examples and explanations of how altered chords work in practical terms. After all, the guitar can be a tricky instrument on which to …

The term ‘embellished’ isn’t really a theoretical one, but it seems an appropriate way to describe these examples. Sometimes an idea for a chord progression can come to us virtually complete; at other times, we have to work a bit harder to refine an idea. …

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 7th, we’d call this a major 7th chord (C-E-G-B). We can …

… chords into three areas – beginner guitar chords, folk and blues. There…

… . “Elvis strummed a few bass guitar chords for Paul and said, ‘See …

… written after learning just three guitar chords on a friend’s acoustic …

Complete mastery of the fretboard – as much as such a thing may be possible – would have to include knowing each and every way a chord can be played or ‘voiced.’ Taking a theoretically identical chord and juggling its notes can give a subtle or not so …