Many guitar players never have to transpose a piece of music in their entire lives, and certainly this is not something that most new players would need to do for quite some time. Unfortunately, for those of us who like to play with a band, we are limited by a particular instrument, basically unless your [...]

If you have ever spent some time looking at guitar tablature, or reading sheet music, you will have come across the concept behind slash chords. They are represented as two chord names with a slash between them such as D/F#? If you are anything like me, when I first started playing I would just choose [...]

If you have ever heard any rock music, punk, heavy metal or any other form of music that features overdriven, distorted guitar sounds, then you have definitely heard power chords in action, they have been the backbone of rock music for the last 50 years.
Interestingly enough, in musical terms, the power chord is not actually [...]

You have probably heard the phrase "perfect pitch" being thrown around, usually by some pretentious vocalist boasting that they have it. The thing is, anybody who can play a musical instrument can eventually develop perfect pitch. If you have a good enough ear to hear the difference between notes then you have the basic tools [...]

I have had a particular suspicion for a very long time; this suspicion is that so many new guitar players decide to concentrate upon playing lead because learning to play rhythm properly is deceptively difficult. Learning chord shapes can be significantly harder than learning scales and building technique and speed between chord changes takes quite [...]