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81Guitar 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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86Guitar - Tips on buying a guitar
Buying the right guitar, and amp for that matter, is important if you want to make fast progress, and even earn some money! I can point you in the right direction as a result of 30 year's experience, not all...
7 comments84Guitar 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...
10 comments81Guitar songwriters: Joni and James Taylor
This is a song that raised the bar for songwriting, and it still sounds great, untarnished by time- like all great art. The album Blue came out while I was still at school and it has rarely been equalled...
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67Guitar chords guide 2
A minor (or Am) is another of those guitar-friendly keys and widely used in rock guitar songs and also Spanish or Spanish -influenced flamenco pieces. Both these chord progressions are very common in music,...
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88Guitar 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 comments74Guitar online and Guitar DVD
As a Guitar teacher I'm often struck by the speed that people are learning at in this internet age - when I started playing there were no guitar tabs, no video or DVD lessons, and any Play-in-a-day books were...
4 comments82Piano/Keyboard - songwriting guide
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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74Guitar 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 comments89Pop/ 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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