Terms such as ‘altered’ and ‘extended’ chords are relatively simple to explain. Extended chords add other notes from the scale to the existing root-3rd-5th triad (for example, C-E-G), so if we add a ...

Instead of just sticking to conventional chord shapes, late guitar (and bass) player, co-founder Walter Becker preferred to use different inversions to place guitar in the track in a different way, ...

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 ...