When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: David Redfern/Redferns Terms such as ‘altered’ and ‘extended’ chords are relatively ...

Welcome back. This is a continuation of our exploration of chord progressions in songs, both diationic (one key) and chromatic (more than one color, of key). It starts with an example by The Beatles, ...

We can make our chords more interesting by adding extra notes… but not just any. So far in this series of practical music theory tutorials we’ve dealt with basic three-note triads, but we’re going to ...

In this frankly epic tutorial we're concentrating solely on chords and chordal ideas, and the following will act as a compendium of great chord fingerings. The audio examples start with simple chords ...