Every player is aware of the minor pentatonic, but not everyone knows how to make the most of it. These examples – in the style of some prolific pentatonic players – will help you master the shape eve ...

"That's just basically D, B minor, E minor, A," he says of the song's chord structure. "That's the scope of all the chords in the entire song." If, like us, you're already overwhelmed by that chordal ...

Johnny Cash's Hurt hits way different in A Major, as much so as Ring of Fire in G Minor. The dissonance in tone between the chords is, ahem, a minor one: simply the third note lowered to a flat.

Harmonic minor keys are used when writing chords. There is another version of the minor key known as the melodic minor. This is used when writing a melody. Each key signature has two possible keys.

and it’s identical to the natural minor scale except for one difference: it has a natural 6th degree, rather than a flatted 6th. By stacking thirds on this scale to generate 4-note chords ...