Barre chords are an essential building block in guitar playing. These simple chord shapes can be used anywhere on the fretboard and can form the base for your own songs. Before you can get stuck into ...

Guitar lessons: The most common chord progression is known as a ‘12-bar blues’, which, predictably is 12 bars long (eight-, 16- and 24-bar versions are common, too). What the name doesn’t tell you is ...

The A major pentatonic, A minor pentatonic and Mixolydian are great places to start and we'll show you how ...