The former Police guitarist told us how the group's evolution in the midst of punk led him to his breakthrough achievement as ...

If there’s one thing you can do to take your songwriting to the next level, it’s getting to grips with new chords. Use our acoustic guitar chord ... sound and work in jazz just as well as blues. Bm7 ...

From bossanovas to Carole King and even James Bond villains, the major seventh can completely change your song’s mood.

Jimi Hendrix, David Gilmour and Slash are just three of the countless fans of this staple minor mode. Here, Stuart Ryan takes you through the structure of the scale, plus a handful of chords, riffs an ...

Nilüfer’s double tracked vocals (a moody low line paired with airy falsetto) mirroring the interplay between Archer’s melodic bass and inventive guitar ... their minor chord melodies and ...

The fat guitar chords and the way they bleed into the next ... soft and swooning and jazz-kissed as it is. Grohl and Co. exhibit a purposeful restraint on this one, letting the song breathe ...

Ulmer created a discursive idiom defined by scratchy chords and jagged melodic shards. More recently, Ulmer has explored his blues roots, though his sui generis approach to jazz guitar remains ...

The evening’s main event, Turnage’s concerto for electric guitar and orchestra, was bound to stand aside from those other two very English composers. American music, especially jazz ...

There have been plenty of wonderful jazz guitar riffs ... written all the chord pieces but was still looking for a riff flourish to improve the song. “I knew it needed a melodic thing, and ...

Guitar/bass/plucked string instrument (specific to the Commercial Music Minor): First position open chords (major, minor, dominant), First position one octave major scale in key appropriate to ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. The original Guitar Hero debuted in November 2005, but the franchise has been in a lull for a long time. The last game, Guitar Hero Live ...