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Ever felt you didn’t know enough guitar chords? We look at the technique that will take your chord vocabulary into double and even treble figures... You probably already know a bunch of open chords - ...

Somewhere along the way, barre chords became the gold standard. For many songwriting guitarists, they’re seen as a kind of graduation from open chords, a sort of signal to the guitar world that you’ve ...

Conventional wisdom dictates that a well-written song will stand up even when reduced to simple chords on acoustic guitar. But at some point, we’ve all heard songs in which complex or unusual chord ...