Guitar skills: If there’s one thing you'll need to do to take your songwriting to the next level, it’s getting to grips with new chords. Use our acoustic guitar chord charts - from basic open chords ...

Every style of music uses major chords - for many players, the first thing they learn is a handful of these essential shapes. Still, once you get ‘under the hood’ there’s a lot to learn, and it’s not ...

To avoid sounding the idle sixth string when you play this chord, bring your thumb around the back of the neck so that the tip of it just touches the string. This is a useful blues shape that can ...