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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...

9 comments    online gift ideas piano
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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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A 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...

2 comments    compose music melody composer
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Guitar 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...

0 comments    online guitar gift ideas
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Music Theory

So how does Basic Music Theory apply to reference products? These days, there are a lot of decent music theory books, tapes etc. on the market, and many of them feature good technical content. There are no...

1 comment    music music theory piano music theory
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5 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. ...

6 comments    music arts guitar
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Odd 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...

3 comments    music educational music theory
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Understanding your guitar

This article is part of a series we are doing on how to play acoustic guitar. Here are the links to the previous articles: The Basics of Learning guitar Basic Chords Part 1 Basic Chords Part 2 As...

0 comments    how to guitar learn
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Chapter 4: Harmony and Chords

Music works in amazing ways that grow even more astonishing when you break them down. With a solid understanding of the chromatic scale and the major scales we can take it another step further and actually...

0 comments    music guitar rock
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Guitar 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...

2 comments    online guitar learn guitar
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