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 ...

When you’re looking at the conventions for chord naming, it’s easy to become confused around sus, add and altered chords. Here we aim to demystify some of this by taking a closer look at what an ‘add’ ...

You probably didn‘t know it, but Artie Shaw is alive and well and living in Southern California. He’s been here for 23 years, writing books in a modest tract house at the far end of the San Fernando ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Every month, Guitar Techniques attempts to answer guitarists' playing posers and technical ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. From a music theory perspective, jazz, gospel and funk are probably the most technically advanced ...