We're breaking 22 essential chords into three areas – beginner guitar chords, folk and blues. There's plenty of inspiration ...

Kick your blues jam sessions off with these essential open-position and moveable chord shapes. To avoid sounding the idle ...

In blues ‘dominant’ 7 chords (A7 or D7 for example ... There’s a lot of mileage in this simple approach. Experiment by moving ...

There are loads of great songs out there from across the decades that are often a lot simpler to play than you might think.

You’ll find it in many old blues tunes ... which means acknowledging each chord melodically. Figure 2 presents a solo that does this. I begin over F7 with a simple melody based on F major ...

Blues in simple time with four beats in the bar and mostly follows a 12 bar blues chord structure. 8 and 16 bar blues can also sometimes be found. Blues verses have a three line structure - AAB ...

This is a great way of injecting some ‘blues’ flavour into your chord progressions ... More about guitar chords "You can learn hundreds of songs with a few easy chords and some basic rhythm playing ...