When you play a chord progression you have tons of options. You can play the most basic chords, open or barre chords, or you can doctor it up a bit and use triads and 7th chords, inversions and so on.

It doesn't have to be showy or busy. Just adding some chord motion by connecting inversions with i...

Creating melodic movement in a chord progression can make basic chord patterns more fun to play. It sounds great too!

In this video we'll look at one way you can do this by using intervals taken from a basic scale fragment. Essentially we'll just take note pairs from a scale and try some different ...

Creating chord melodies or melodic chord passages can be tricky. But using 10th intervals you can create beautiful sounding harmonies pretty easily, because the shapes are simple but sound fantastic. Learn how to use 10th's effectively in this video.

Adding melodic ideas to chordal rhythm guitar parts can make them stand out and sound more musical. There's an easy way to do this, by learning what melody notes you can play on top of simple triad shapes.

Focusing on 4 string triad shapes, I'll walk you through one approach that can help you easily ...