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 purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Every month, Guitar Techniques attempts to answer guitarists' playing posers and technical ...

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 ...

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 ...