If there’s one thing you can do to take your songwriting to the next level, it’s getting to grips with new chords. Use our acoustic guitar ... minor and sus chords. The A7, D7 and E9 shapes shown here ...

Harmonic minor keys are used when writing chords. There is another version of the minor key known as the melodic minor. This is used when writing a melody. Each key signature has two possible keys.

Bass Week: As bass players we naturally have to know our chords, and ideally a fair bit about harmony and chord progressions ...

If there’s one thing you can do to take your songwriting to the next level, it’s getting to grips with new chords. Use our ...