This is the A major scale. As you can see there are seven notes, with the first note (called the root note) repeated at the end in a higher register. A minor 7th chord is constructed by using the 1st, ...

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Part of the reason guitarists love to use the minor pentatonic scale is its versatility - often you can use the scale throughout a whole song, provided the key doesn’t change. We’ve played this line ...

Guitar straps are useful tools, but they’re a little one-dimensional. Thankfully, SNL’s Fred Armisen has a nifty solution – straps with chord shapes printed onto them. If, like this writer, you had a ...

The chords have a dark and unsettling sound, and we can include both an E minor and an Em7b5 chord from its chord family. It ...