Guitar Songwriting: How to Create Interesting Chords

Tired of the same old D-G-A songs?  Here’s an easy method for creating a brand new chord and using it in a chord progression.

Basically, you take a traditional chord, move one finger by one fret.  Go back and forth between the regular chord and its one-note-altered variation.  Then slide the variation to somewhere else on the neck.

The result sound like this:

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