When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Learn four barre chord shapes and play 48 different chords. It’s as good as it sounds. We ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Getty Images Conventional wisdom dictates that a well-written song will stand up even ...

Ever felt you didn’t know enough guitar chords? We look at the technique that will take your chord vocabulary into double and even treble figures... You probably already know a bunch of open chords - ...

Let’s be clear: there’s no such thing as an ‘acoustic guitar chord’. If a guitar has a standard fretboard, then, acoustic or electric, all chord shapes are fair game. However, some chords do sound ...

Somewhere along the way, barre chords became the gold standard. For many songwriting guitarists, they’re seen as a kind of graduation from open chords, a sort of signal to the guitar world that you’ve ...

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 chord charts - from basic open chords to the daddy of altered ...

Years ago, songwriting legend Harlan Howard made the famous statement, “Country music is three chords and the truth.” That used to be pretty accurate, but even when he said that, he was generalizing.