Intermediate Guide to Playing Guitar

Ready to take your guitar playing to the next level? In this intermediate music theory lesson, you'll learn how to build major chords over the neck.

When you strum a G chord on the guitar, you’re actually playing a major triad! Learn the music theory behind major triads in this guitar lesson.

Now that you understand major triads, it is time to move on to minors! In this lesson, learn what notes to change in guitar chords to shift a major to a minor.

If you know how to shape major and minor triad chords across the fretboard, it’s time to learn how to form diminished and augmented guitar chords!

Building on the basics of guitar chord formation, this lesson introduces suspended chords. Learn to make major chords suspensions by moving the three to a four.