In this frankly epic tutorial we're concentrating solely on chords and chordal ideas, and the following will act as a compendium of great chord fingerings. The audio examples start with simple chords ...

In music theory, an extension is similar in concept to a house extension, except that, rather than three-bed semis, we’re dealing with three-note chords. By definition, to extend is to make something ...

When we learn about creating a chord from a scale, we list the notes in order of appearance: Root, 3rd, 5th. However, swapping this order around can sometimes be really effective. Shifting the 3rd (or ...

In music, an interval is the distance between two notes. In the example below, count up from and including the lowest note up to the highest pitched note to identify the interval. This interval is ...