Guitar skills: 'Add’ chords come in the form of either ‘add9’ or ‘add11’. The name tells you to add either a 9th or 11th interval to a basic major or minor chord. So, Cadd9 is a C chord ...

Where the major seventh differs, is that it is only one semitone below the keynote, so in a chord of C major 7, the ‘major’ refers to ... effective when played rhythmically on an acoustic guitar, but ...

If you've recently starting playing guitar you’ve probably already tried some of the most common open chords (so called because they include un-fretted or ‘open’ strings), such as C, A and Em ...

Here are some examples: Rock bass lines are usually very simple, and relate to the rhythm of the guitar part ... root note and fifth of a chord (with a chord of C major, this is C and G).