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89Pop/ Rock Keyboard (guitar/songwriters)
This article is mainly for guitar and bass guitar players, who want to record keyboard parts to enhance songs and arrangements of songs, or just understand music theory better. I started as a guitarist, and...
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This is a short introduction to music theory useful to jazz, rock, pop musicians on any instrument or voice - and helpful if you compose or improvise music. Although we'll be looking at the piano keyboard,...
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83Guitar 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...
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85Guitar - 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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77Guitar barre chords- and alternatives
You can get by without barre chords, and usually I won't really use them at all in the course of a gig. Once you understand the concept, which is important, there are many ways to avoid using them. Rock...
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81A Complete Guide To Compose a Melody
When people think of music, and memorable songs they have heard in the past, generally they think of the melody. This illustrates the importance of the melody and also brings up three questions. What is the...
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80Odd Time Signatures Made Easy!
A piece of music cannot be appreciated without the passage of time. In fact, music as a sonic entity does not exist in any spatial dimension (the physical aspects that go into the creation of music have...
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795 Benefits Of Learning To Play A Musical Instrument
In all honesty, learning a new musical instrument can be a very rewarding experience. Take it from me, I've been playing my trumpet for about 10 years now and I recently picked up guitar 4 months ago. ...
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79Chapter 1: The Chromatic Scale
Let's dive right in to the single most important concept of studying western music, and the specifics of how it is unique to other cultures and their subcategories of music. When a sound wave vibrates in the...
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77Guitar Lesson - playing lead guitar
Let's start with the key of C - reading across the top line of the chart below. You'll find seven different diatonic chords, 3 major, 3 minor, one very odd m7b5 chord that you'll only encounter in jazz...
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