Guitar Songwriting Tip: Building Chords with Clarity

by Brian Casel | January 22, 2009 | Add Comment

I recently wrote a guest post over at Mad Stratter about creative chord structure in songwriting. Going along with a general theme of addition by subtraction (which I talked about in another post), the basic idea is to strip your chords of extra clutter and noise by choosing the most essential building blocks.

Read the full article and be sure to check out the rest of the Mad Stratter blog for a ton of great Stratocaster info and more.

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