Learning to play guitar can involve a lot of memorization – chords, scales, arpeggios, you name it. [MushfiqM] has made the process a bit easier with his Digital Chord Chart. Just about every… ...

Created by one MushfiqM, the “Digital Chord Chart” could be programmed to play almost any song using TAB files that include chords and stylized note representations.

6 international scales every guitar player should know ... As this scale is closely related to the Lydian mode the chord ...

When you use a scale, say, C major, you are playing ‘in the key of C’. The word ‘diatonic’ simply means ‘within a key’, so a diatonic chord progression is a set of chords made up of notes from within ...

So – as represented by the bold text in the above diagram – a I-IV-V in C major equates to the chords C, F and G. In D major, these chords would transpose up to D, G and A, and so on.

Guitar World “You’ll find it ... This is mirrored in the chord progression via Eb7/Ab to D7/A. I take the same approach in bar 3 for the next chord, G7, as I play Ab to G (b9 to root), ...

This is a cool trick you can use in a 12-bar blues progression to spice up your blues riffs. Taking a minor chord (In this example, an Am7 played in the thumb and triad style) and hammering onto the ...