Guitar Gravitas is yet another iOS chords-and-scales app for guitar players, but this one’s worth a look because the layout is so damned useful. Unlike many other scale and chord apps, Guitar Gravitas ...

Tab is short for tablature, a notational system used to give detailed information as to where notes should be played on the fretboard. Tab appears underneath conventional music notation as six ...

If you’re learning to play the guitar, then you will constantly be looking up two things: Scales and chords. After you get a bit further into it, you’ll add arpeggios to that list. And you will keep ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Introduce changes in the mood of the music you play with this ‘relative’ major and minor scale ...

Using scales to make music is more than just choosing the right one. But how does one go about practicing scales, and should you bother? Using my favourite analogy, if music is a language then scales ...

Playing the guitar is the best. The. Best. I have played guitar for 22 years and every single day I feel the same excitement about picking it up as the first day. Playing music is pretty much always ...

The ‘happiest’ sounding of the modes, the Ionian is identical to the major scale, so it’s highly likely you’re already playing it on guitar. However, things really come alive when you approach Ionian ...

Terms such as ‘altered’ and ‘extended’ chords are relatively simple to explain. Extended chords add other notes from the scale to the existing root-3rd-5th triad (for example, C-E-G), so if we add a ...