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“Seven Spanish Angels” by Ray Charles And Willie Nelson
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“Personal Jesus” by Johnny Cash
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Caring For Your Acoustic Guitar
This article will explain how to take care of your acoustic guitar. An acoustic guitar will last a lifetime if properly taken care of. Your guitar is made of thin wood which is easily affected by temperature and humidity. This combination is the most important single part of your guitar’s surroundings. Martin keeps its factory…
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Open D Tuning
What Is It? Open D tuning, also called ‘Brady Clark Tuning’ is an open tuning for the acoustic or electric guitar. The open string notes in this tuning are: D-A-D-F#-A-D (from low E to high E). It uses the three notes that form the triad of a D major chord: D, the root note A,…
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Acoustic Drills And Exercises
In this lesson, we’re going to take a look at a few ways you can improve your acoustic guitar technique. We’ll go through some drills and exercises that you can use daily that will help you play faster, cleaner, and better. We’ll be looking at exercises that will benefit both the picking hand and the…
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Playing Slide On Acoustic
It’s common to use an open tuning to play slide guitar. This allows us to tune so that when we play all the strings open it sounds as a chord. For example, let’s take the open D tuning. Once we’re tuned to open D, a D chord will sound when we play the strings open,…
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Rhythm Trainer (Keeping Better Time)
In this lesson, you’ll discover some of the ways you can improve your rhythm or, in other words, your sense of time. When you’re first starting to learn how to play, common problems arise when you’re playing along with a beat. For example, when trying to strum along with a beat, many tend to drag…
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Alternating Bass In Four Easy Steps
Exercise 1 Getting the hang of playing an alternating bass line while strumming takes a little practice. It’s well worth the effort! In this lesson, we’ll take our first small step towards this goal. Below is the tab for our first alternating bass exercise. Use your thumb to pick each note. You should also count…
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Suspended Chords
A suspended chord is a chord that creates a subtle harmonic tension by adding an extra note that sounds like it wants to resolve back to the original chord. You can hear their use in most types of music. Usually, this extra note replaces the 3rd. As an example, an Esus chord resolves back to…
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Easy Everyday Fingerstyle
In this lesson, we’ll explore how you can incorporate fingerstyle techniques into your everyday playing. Besides, who wants to have to search for a pick every time you pick up the guitar? Fingerstyle can be easy, fun, and convenient! Topics covered in this lesson include… How fingerstyle tone differs from the use of a pick…