Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credit: Jack Robinson/Hulton Archive/Getty Images The acoustic guitar remains one of the most popular instruments among ...

James Honeyman-Scott of The Pretenders was a master at creating interesting parts from simple alternate chords. We look at ...

In this lesson, we're creating rhythm parts using chords that exploit the open strings. We'll make things simple by limiting our study here to major and minor triads. As you may have guessed from the ...

West Knoxville has the unfortunate (and incorrect) reputation for having a limited number of live music venues. Sure, there’s no shortage of bars offering singer-songwriter nights, but the assumption ...

Ever felt you didn’t know enough guitar chords? We look at the technique that will take your chord vocabulary into double and even treble figures... You probably already know a bunch of open chords - ...

If House of Blues and Guitar Center had a child, it would be Open Chord at 8502 Kingston Pike. The mecca of live music is several business in one. There’s the Open Chord Music Shop featuring unique ...

Conventional wisdom dictates that a well-written song will stand up even when reduced to simple chords on acoustic guitar. But at some point, we’ve all heard songs in which complex or unusual chord ...

KNOXVILLE (WATE) – Open Chord, a music venue in Knoxville, held a suicide prevention benefit concert, Saturday night. Jimmy Morris, lead singer of Jimmy and the Jawbones, says suicide is very personal ...