Video Lesson: Harnessing the Power of Sus Chords
Look at some sus-chord symbols commonly seen in popular music and learn how to play them on guitar.
In this book from Acoustic Guitar, master teachers Ron Jackson, Adam Levy, Sean McGowan, Jane Miller, and Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers deliver a dozen weekly workouts designed to engage both your fingers and your mind as you develop musical vocabulary and fluidity, while putting chords, harmonies, and progressions at your fingertips. Here’s a selection from the 12 lessons included in Chords at Your Fingertips.
New Book Release: Chords at Your Fingertips
Follow this series of step-by-step lessons that take you from mastering moveable chord shapes to building chords from pentatonic scales to harmonizing like Chet Atkins and a whole lot in between.
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How to Play Thirds Up and Down Your Acoustic Guitar Fretboard
Lines based on thirds present great material for picking- and fretting-hand exercises, and also provide a solid foundation for melodic ideas and solos.
Video Lesson: Using Horizontal Harmonies to Express Chord Changes
Try these exercises to make your melodies more harmonic and your harmonies more melodic.
Video Lesson: Learn to Play Guitar Chord Melodies Like Chet Atkins or Earl Klugh
Learning to play chord-melody style—that is, expressing melodies in chords rather than single notes—is a formidable and valuable skill.
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Video Lesson: Spice Up Your Guitar Playing With Jazz-Style Harmonic Flavors
The concepts taught in this Weekly Workout will help you play with new depth and excitement.
