The acoustic guitar remains one of the most popular instruments among singer-songwriters, as well as solo instrumentalists. Admittedly, this is probably in part due to it being so portable, but beyond ...

Park your electric guitar in Drop D. Throw your pick in the trash. It's time for some muscular fingerstyle with the purveyor ...

In this lesson, we're creating rhythm parts using chords that exploit the open strings. We'll make things simple by limiting our study here to major and minor triads. As you may have guessed from the ...

If there’s one thing you can do to take your songwriting to the next level, it’s getting to grips with new chords. Use our ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Comedian and tribute artist, Roger Kabler, will be at The Open Chord in Knoxville in August for four days presenting “Robin: The Ultimate Robin Williams Tribute Experience!” that ...

West Knoxville has the unfortunate (and incorrect) reputation for having a limited number of live music venues. Sure, there’s no shortage of bars offering singer-songwriter nights, but the assumption ...

Move away from the comfort of open chords and find creative freedom by learning how to play all over the fretboard with our guide to nailing essential barre chord techniques. Moving chord shapes ...

Somewhere along the way, barre chords became the gold standard. For many songwriting guitarists, they’re seen as a kind of graduation from open chords, a sort of signal to the guitar world that you’ve ...

KNOXVILLE (WATE) – Open Chord, a music venue in Knoxville, held a suicide prevention benefit concert, Saturday night. Jimmy Morris, lead singer of Jimmy and the Jawbones, says suicide is very personal ...