In my last column, we looked at some rhythm and lead approaches to playing over a 12-bar blues progression in the key of A that’s set to a brisk, country-style “train beat” with a swing-16ths feel.

In this frankly epic tutorial we're concentrating solely on chords and chordal ideas, and the following will act as a compendium of great chord fingerings. The audio examples start with simple chords ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Diminished seventh (or ‘dim7’ from here on out) chords are nowhere near as scary as they sound - ...