Tuition:

B9b5

Place the fingers carefully for this one, as this voicing gets a bit congested at the bottom of the fretboard. Play this chord slowly from lowest note to highest note to make the most of the flattened ...

G

This may be a G, but it's no ordinary G! The combination of open strings and notes high up the fretboard means than this chord contains two pairs of unisons, that is, two pairs of notes of the same pi ...

Aadd9/E

Here's a voicing of Aadd9/E with a chiming major second interval between the open B and C# on the third string. Play the chord one note at a time to make the most of this. Resolve this chord by moving ...

Gm

A three-note voicing of Gm this month, showing that chords don't need to contain loads of notes to be effective. This shape has a nice bare perfect fifth interval between the bottom two notes and a mo ...

E Octaves

We're returning to classical composer Villa-Lobos again for this peculiar chord from Study No 11. It's called E Octaves since it consists solely of three fretted E's flanked by open E's on bottom and ...

G6/F5

As the name implies, we've got a G6 chord on the top three strings over an F5 chord on the bottom three strings. Alternatively, it could be called Fmaj7sus9aug11 which is more immediately informative ...

E

Here we've got an octave shape of G#s on strings five and three plus the bottom and top two strings played open. This forms an E chord; it's the opening chord of Radiohead's High And Dry, plus the ope ...

D7#9b5/A

Here's a handful for you. With a double barre from thumb and first finger this might not be an elegant chord to finger, but the harmonic richness in this D7#9b5/A makes it worth the struggle. Resolve ...

Dm add 9/Eb

This unlikely fella is the opening chord of Mastodon%u2019s Pendulous Skin. It's a Dm add 9 chord on the top four strings, but with an Eb note at the bottom on the fifth string. Resolve the tension by ...

Em9

Em9 ...

Fsus9

Fsus9 ...

Cadd6add9

Cadd6add9 ...

E/Gsharp

E/Gsharp ...

D5b9

D5b9 ...

Cadd2

Cadd2 ...