We're going to look at power chords! Make the devil horns sign, everyone! First, let's use a tiny bit of 'proper' chord theory. The basis for almost all chords in Western music is the triad. Taking ...

Jimmy Page often employed dissonant chords with Led Zep and you can, too. You don't even need to know the name of the chord ...

In “Solar Power,” we hear a D# over the A Major chord, ... This note (the #4) will inevitably happen when playing a diatonic B Mixolydian melody over an A Major chord ...

It’s so named because it’s the 7th from a major scale, and not the more usual flattened variety, associated with the blues. This becomes slightly more complicated with a chord such as Cm Maj7; the ...