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Diminished 7th Guitar Chord Shape

This week's Guitar Chord Of The Week is a diminished 7th shape. This particular chord shape is played on the top four strings, and is very easy to play.

Gsharp Diminished 7 Chord Guitar — G# Diminished 7 Chord Guitar

An example chord progression is provided at the end of the article, allowing you to try out the chord and hear how it sounds.

Audio examples are also included.

This week's Guitar Chord Of The Week is a minor 6 chord. This chord will often sound good in place of a normal minor chord: it's basically the same chord, but with a 6th note added. Learn the moveable chord shape, then try playing this chord in the example progression, provided at the end of the lesson...

Dominant 13th Flat 9 Chord Guitar

This week's Guitar Chord Of The Week is a Dominant 13th Flat Nine (13b9) chord. What's unusual about this particular shape is that it doesn't contain a root note.

This chord has quite an strange sound when played on its own. However, when you play it as part of a chord progression, it can sound great.

Try it yourself in the example chord progression provided at the end of the lesson...

Add9 Chord E Shape Guitar Chord Of The Week

This week's Guitar Chord Of The Week is a great-sounding add 9 chord.

Add 9 Chord Shape For Guitar - Play It In The Example Progression

This particular shape is quite a stretch and by the end of the article your hand may be a little bit bigger!

The add9 is a very nice sounding chord. You can use it to brighten up your own songs by using it in place of major chords.

You can also use it to create riffs by playing it as an arpeggio. At the end of the article we show you how...

Major 6th Guitar Chord Of The Week

This week's Guitar Chord Of The Week is a useful major 6th shape. It probably won't be the first major 6th chord shape you learn; check out this shape for a more common way of playing a 6 chord. However, this week's chord is a good shape to have up your sleeve when you are writing songs or rhythm guitar parts.

At the end of the article there is an example chord progression that shows one way in which this shape could be used.

The choice for this week's Guitar Chord Of The Week was inspired by the Brazilian World Cup; our featured chord is a major 6/9 (Maj6/9) shape with an open, Latin sound.

Learn the chord, then play it in the Brazilian-style chord progression provided.

Minor 9th Chord Low Voicing

This week's Guitar Chord Of The Week is a minor 9th chord that is played on the bottom four strings. This low voicing can be very effective, especially when used with other 'low' chords. Hear for yourself by playing the example chord progression provided at the end of the article.