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 acoustic guitar chord ... types in music are major and minor ...

The ‘happiest’ sounding of the modes, the Ionian is identical to the major scale ... way of telling you which chords of the mode are being used: A (I), D (IV) and E (V) here.

Check out the audio examples of how they should sound below the chord boxes too. Get a folk vibe to your playing with these chords, which are more colourful and interesting than the simple open major ...