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F minor barre chord (E shape)
The Em shape barre chord on the 1st fret equals Fm (F minor):
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The 5 Steps to Marketing Your Music
Let’s begin with some questions : 1. Who is your ideal fan? Are you able to clearly find a possible fan in a crowd? You need to. Whether or not anyone likes it or not, you can see who your fans should be. Once again, let’s look at The Dave Matthews Band and Nirvana. If…
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Reaching Your Musical Aspirations
You may not want to set goals. You may hate the idea. The best idea for you in this case is to look at the facts. EVERY successful band and/or musician has to make sacrifices. If you just sit back and let the course run, odds are high that you will never make it past…
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Pentatonic Scale
The word pentatonic gets it’s name from the Greek word “penta” which means 5 and tonic which stands for tone. That’s what pentatonic scales are: 5 tone scales. There are only 5 basic pentatonic patterns. They are the C, A, G, E, and D. They are similar to the 5 basic chord patterns, because they can be closely associated…
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Cocaine by Eric Clapton
Main Riff Here’s what it sounds like looped at the normal tempo of 107 bpm: Riff Resources Complete Transcription To “Cocaine” (PDF) Complete Transcription To “Cocaine” (Power Tab)
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Power Attenuator
A Power Attenuator enables a player to obtain power-tube distortion independently of listening volume. A power attenuator is a dummy load placed between the guitar amplifier’s power tubes and the guitar speaker, or a power-supply based circuit to reduce the plate voltage on the power tubes. This is essentially a commercially packaged version of what…
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“All Mixed Up” by 311
Difficulty : Intermediate Since this is a Reggae song, you may have a little trouble with it. We now have the videos back up and running, so we are going to focus on this lesson in a different way.
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Neo-Classicism
Neo-Classicism can be defined as the new classical movement. This movement started in the early 1920s and continued to be a leading musical movement throughout the century. This trend is still popular today. Neo-Classicism is a movement which incorporated the music of the Classical era, in terms of clarity of texture and objectivity. This trend…
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Jazz
Jazz is a musical movement which dominated the 1900s. It is mainly an American form and remains popular to this day. Jazz can be defined as anything from popular music of the twentieth century to the improvised sounds of a dance band. Some prominent forms of Jazz throughout the century have been Ragtime, Blues ,…
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Expressionism
Although not as important as Impressionism, Expressionism was a prominent early twentieth century movement. Stylistically, expressionistic music was very atonal and dissonant. It was a German movement away from French Impressionism. It was emotional and had a somewhat Romantic feel to it.