Knowing how to make chord progressions is essential to writing great music. A chord progression is like a chain of chords ...

If you've recently starting playing guitar you’ve probably already tried some of the most common open chords ... with using them in your own chord progressions. The two most important chord ...

Because sometimes you need a chord with a little more harmonic intrigue, we take a look at the theory behind embellished ...

The minor i-iv-v is one of the most common chord progressions and in the Aeolian mode it doesn’t reveal any surprises – except all three chords turn out to be minor. Our Aeolian rhythm guitar ...

In our example, we’re using chords in both root and 1st inversion formations, employing a bass note too. You can see that the movement between notes is (for the most part) relatively small or step ...

A future bass bassline is best kept simple and stable by playing the root notes of the chords. If you used one of the premade ...

We’ll keep the beat going and we’ll improvise with our instruments over the top of the bridge chords ... Sometimes the chord progressions that form the foundation of a song might be changed ...