Creating suspense in music can be achieved in a number of different ways, but for instant suspense gratification, there's nothing quite like a diminished chord. It's a fairly safe bet to suggest that ...

Improvising Passing Diminished Chords There is a lot of uncertainty that surrounds diminished chords. How do they work exactly? What chordscales do they take? How do you improvise over them? Gain some ...

Triads are three-note chords made up of the lowest note (known as the root note), a middle note, (the third), and the top note (the fifth). But when you play a set of diatonic chords like this, built ...

Jazz guitar…. There is no other pairing of words that strike fear into the hearts of guitar players more than those two. The world of jazz guitar is vast. When we think of the leading players from all ...