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92Guitar in open G Tuning
Why use this tuning? It sounds great and is very versatile. It also enables you to play nice chord voicings with open strings and harmonics, and use slide guitar sounds. Normal or standard tuning: E A D G B...
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94Guitar 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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89Guitar 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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86Guitar - 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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83Guitar 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...
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82Guitar 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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81Guitar Lesson - scales and solos
Although this article is geared towards guitar players, all the theory involved works on piano too, so please make the most of it if you play keyboards. There are only two types of scale we're going to look...
2 comments81Guitar 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...
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78Music theory cycle of fifths
Knowing the intense hatred most people have for music theory, I'm going to keep this very simple. Starting with the key of C at the top of the circle - C has no flats or sharps.Visually on the piano keyboard,...
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77Guitar Chords with basslines
The type of chord progression we're looking at here is very common in music. The good news is that once you've learned it you can apply it in literally dozens of songs. I'll list some of these below. The...
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