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Beast Of Burden by The Rolling Stones
Difficulty: Intermediate The Rolling Stones have been around a long time and it’s not because of their good looks. It’s because of their phenomenal music. These guys can jam! This song is perfect example of their layered guitar approach. It contains really nice guitar parts that are fun to learn and play- not to mention educational. Give it…
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“Always” by Blink 182
Difficulty: Easy The new-school punk trio blink-182 was formed near San Diego, California around Tom Delonge, Mark Hoppus, and original drummer Scott Raynor. Originally known as Blink, the band debuted in 1993 with a self-released album called “Fly Swatter”. After releasing the album “Buddha” in 1994, the trio signed to Grilled Cheese/Cargo records and released “Cheshire Cat” the following year.…
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Overdrive
Some distortion effects provide an “overdrive” effect. Either by using a vacuum tube, or by using simulated tube modeling techniques, the top of the wave form is compressed, thus giving a smoother distorted signal than regular distortion effects. When an overdrive effect is used at a high setting, the sound’s waveform can become clipped, which…
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C Shape Barre Chord
While the C major in open position should be no sweat to you by now, the barred version is a little more challenging. It’s hard to get at first, but don’t you dare skip it. It’s important know this shape.
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Which Scale: Improvising With Pentatonics
The stage is set. The fans have gathered and the band opens up with it’s first song. Quick, it’s time for a solo, but what do you play? That’s easy. We’ll just improvise! “To improvise means to make it up on the spot, right?”, you ask. Yes, we’re going to make the solo up as…
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Awake by Godsmack
Difficulty: Intermediate You will need to tune to : Drop D and down one step (C, G, C, F, A, D)
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G Major Scale
The notes from the G major scale are G, A, B, C, D, E, and F#. There’s one sharp note (F#), but all the rest of the notes are primary notes. That makes it easier to remember what notes make up the scale. Just start on G and go through the musical alphabet. We start…
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The Art Of Memorizing Music
Playing from memory is a skill that I believe is not only possible for every player, but is indeed essential for every player. I never feel that I know a piece, or have “internalized” a piece, until I have been playing it for quite some time from memory. I always found it quite easy to…
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Add A Bass Line To Your Chord Voicings
Simply strumming chords to a song can get quite boring rather quickly. Here we are going to alternate between a bass line and the chord voicings to create a more interesting sonic landscape from some of the basic chord forms that you already know. In the first example, we’re simply going to play the root…