chord progressions Archives

How to use a bass run to connect chords

Learn how the bass run gives you a powerful technique to transition between chords to add interest and variety to your playing in any genre

Learn what makes the 12 bar blues a standard progression that is used throughout popular music along with various ideas on how to play it

Learn about the harmonized scale, how to create and play it in any major key, and how to use its power in many important ways

Learn what dominant 7th chords are, how to make them on guitar, and why they serve such a critical function in modern music.

Open A minor: very common and very versatile

Learn how to play three open-shaped minor chords that you can use to lead your listeners into different emotional territory.