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Guitar chords guide

G major is a popular key for guitar songs, for good reason - the open strings available make most chords sound great. In this article I'm trying to expand the use of open strings to give the chords a fuller...

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Guitar chords 101

I'm a guitar teacher and part-time college lecturer. As a result of many years of teaching guitar I can save you some time. In the chord pictures below I've tried to identify the essential chords, and...

21 comments    how to online songs
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Guitar chords - the best chords

Probably the main reason I like guitar so much is the chords available - which can be fantastic. There's at least 30 years development in these chord ideas. While an individual chord might sound great, it's...

6 comments    how to online guitar
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Guitar - advanced and jazz chords

The chord charts below cover most of the useful and most widely used chord types. If you check out some of my other hubs the underlying theory is explained - make sure you understand the harmonised scale and...

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Guitar lesson - chords in D

No.1 is a typical James Taylor style chord progression - the chords are fingerpicked, and rather than using all the possible notes of the chord, are stripped down to the essentials - which means they sound...

0 comments    online guitar harmony
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Guitar in Open G chords

First, read my other hub Guitar in Open G tuning. These are the harmonised scale chords in the key of G, arranged in an ascending sequence. Due to the open strings, these should have a great tone and sustain,...

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Guitars and Music

Suppose that you are all tooled up, as far as the guitar gear that you want to use, and today it's time to get rolling with some good guitar lesson examples. How are you going to do this best? The answer:...

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Guitar tabs - How to use them

Guitar tab is presented as six lines, one for each string. The number that appears on the lines tells you the fret you should play in. When there is a vertical stack of these numbers, it will be a chord.In...

8 comments    online music guitar
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Guitar in DADGAD tuning

DADGAD is a tuning developed by Davy Graham in the early 1960s. To change your guitar from normal tuning EADGBE just do the following: Tune strings 1, 6 down from E to D. You can use string 4 (D) as a...

2 comments    how to online guitar
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Guitar lesson - learn new chords

Here are some ideas for playing a minor 12-bar blues. In its most basic form a 12-bar blues in Am would go like this: Am7 (4bars)    Dm7 (2 Bars)    Am7 (2bars)   Em7   Dm7    Am7    E7 Since...

2 comments    online guitar blues
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