Showcase special: 24 free guitar chord lessons

24 guitar chord lessons
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GUITAR SHOWCASE 2022: With so many great chord lessons available in our ever-growing guitar lesson archive we thought it made sense to put them all in one place. Whatever level or style of guitar player you are, you'll find inspiration to develop here...

Unlock hundreds of new chord shapes with this barre chord workout

new chord shapes

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Moveable shapes you can play anywhere on the neck 


Play guitar chords across the entire fretboard - here's how

Guitar chords across the entire fretboard

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Use the CAGED system to discover major and minor chords in this guitar lesson


Guitar chord vocab: dissonant chords

dissonant chords

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Add a sense of mystery and ambience to your playing


How to play a guitar solo using chords

solo using chords

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Sharpen your three-piece solo skills


How to build guitar chords the easy way

Elixir® Strings

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Elixir® Strings artist  Shawn Persinger shows you how to unlock the theory behind finding guitar chords 


30 acoustic guitar chords that every player should know

acoustic guitar chords

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From open chords to blues and alternate tunings – we've got you covered here


Improve your guitar chord changes in three simple steps

guitar chord changes

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Lesson: chord shapes to learn with tabs and exercises


22 essential chords all guitarists need to know 

22 essential guitar chords

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From beginner essentials to folk and blues


Learn 60 guitar chords in 20 minutes with this simple lesson

barre

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Master barre chords and open up the fretboard


These two simple guitar chord changes will improve your muscle memory

chord muscle memory

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Start developing speed around the fretboard with an accessible lesson


Bored of barre chords? Try these 5 great slash chords to learn

Keith Richards

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Partial shape chords that are great for rock


Learn to play hundreds of songs with these 5 great chord progressions all guitar players need to know

Acoustic guitar

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Blues, 50s, pop-punk, jazz and the cycle of 5ths are great for songwriting inspiration or looping your own backing tracks too


Expand your repertoire with these unusual chords

Unusual chords

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Step outside the confines of rock and pop with these exotic, weird and wonderful sounds


Get creative with your guitar chord playing in 20 minutes

Creative chord playing

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Find new ideas for old chord shapes with our lesson


Stretch your fingers with these wide chord shapes

Wide chord shapes

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We’re spacing chords across all six strings and leaving lots of space between each note, aiming for an open, airy sound


Learn 16 of the best guitar chords for clean tones

Chords for clean tones

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Make your clean sounds shimmer with these captivating chords


Learn the three-chord trick that's behind thousands of songs

Three chord trick

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Three chords and the most important chord progression in music


Learn add guitar chords

Add guitar chords

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A beginner's guide to exploring the contrasting moods of major and minor add chords


Major guitar chords 

Major guitar chords

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Welcome to the world of bright-sounding major chords; simply add a handful of new notes to create lush, spacious sounds


Learn extended minor chords

Extended minor chords

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A guide to getting more from the moodiest chords of all – they can take on a mellow character too


A beginner's guide to sus guitar chords

Sus guitar chords

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Introduce an airy quality to your progressions with this special ‘neither major nor minor’ type of chord


Learn add guitar chords

Add guitar chords

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A beginner's guide to exploring the contrasting moods of major and minor add chords


Use chords and arpeggios to improve your solos

Chords arpeggios solos

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In this lesson we're covering ideas to help you play more melodic leads, drawing on classic Americana styles


Spice up your chord playing with these inventive harmonic ideas

Harmonic chord ideas

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Integrate natural, artificial and tapped harmonics with this Yes, Rush-style lesson


Learn to play sliding diad chords

Diad chords

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Take diad shapes and move them to add dynamics

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