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The Blackberry Smoke frontman on how sometimes it’s the guitar's tone that’ll unlock the secret to the song

Because guitarists are limited by fretboard geometry, it pays to get creative with chord voicings – as Jimi Hendrix and Nile Rodgers show, clever inversions can make rhythm parts pop

The Smiths’ chord secrets revealed

The blues maestro demonstrates how a change of key can change your perspective and give your chord work new life

Strumming a few chords is all it takes to open up a world of possibilities for new songs, and here the Blackberry Smoke frontman shows us how

Based on an approach Larry Carlton taught him, Corey Congilio says these extended arpeggios can power up your vamping

In the blues-rock maestro's new GW column, he unpacks the core influence in his playing that came from listening to the original greats

Some of guitar’s biggest names swear by suspended chords. Learn why they’re not so sus after all…

Sometimes finding the right chord is a process of subtraction. Here are five examples of how you can jazz up your chord vocab

Want to find your voice? Switch up your pick attack and put some character into your phrasing