MORE CHORDS

Learn the chords, memorise the notes, and play better solos!

These six chords are all from the same key (G major, as it happens), but they’re not bog-standard open shapes. Plotted across the highest strings and ascending the fretboard, they’re perfectly suited to wailing leads – once you start playing chord tones, anyway!

STEP 1

Play each chord as a chord – just strum like you would any other chord, taking care to keep the idle strings quiet.

STEP 2

Now think ‘lead guitar’ and play each note from each chord separately.