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Pentatonic Scales (Music Theory For The Guitarist)
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A Crash Course In Lead Guitar
A lead guitar is a guitar part that plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, and guitar solos within a song structure. What I’m going to show you, in a nutshell, is how to improvise a lead guitar part over any song. It doesn’t matter why type of song it is, because the principles of music are the…
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Basic Guitar Chords: Five Essential Shapes
There are 5 basic guitar chords that every beginner student should learn. These basic chord patterns are the C, A, G, E, and D chords. The 5 Basic Guitar Chords Learn and memorize each chord pattern. Take your time to ensure that you are playing them correctly. Each pattern has a picture of the chord…
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Absolute Basics Of Reading Music & Tab Notation
If I could teach you one thing it would be how to read music and tab. Once you can do this you can go out and learn pretty much anything. In this session, I’m going to show you some of the absolute basics in reading music and tab. Critical info!
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Boogie Woogie Guitar
Here’s a great routine that will give your hands a great workout while practicing a key rhythm found in many types of popular music. The boogie can be found in rock, blues, and even country. It’s a very simple pattern that’s pretty easy to play in the open position, but as you move it up…
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Open E Tuning
Songs that use open E: “Bo Diddley” by Bo Diddley “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” and “Gimme Shelter” by The Rolling Stones “Prodigal Son” also from the Rolling Stones- originally by Robert Wilkins. “It’s So Easy,” by Guns N’ Roses “She Talks to Angels” by The Black Crowes “Rocky Mountain Way” by Joe Walsh Open E tuning…
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Guitar Tapping Basics
Tapping is the technique used by Eddie Van Halen, Steve Vai, Kirk Hamett, and so on.. It involves hammering on the fretboard with a finger from you picking hand (usually the 1st or 2nd finger) to produce a note. Usually this is followed by then pulling off to notes fingered by your fret hand. The involvement…
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Guitar Slides: The Beginner’s Guide
Slides are a basic guitar technique that you’ll find in every style of music. A slide is just what it sounds like: sliding your finger either up, down, to, or from notes. Fig. 1 Slide up to the 9th fret. Fig. 2 Slide down from the 9th fret. Fig. 3 Slide from the 7th fret to the 9th…
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Common Alternate Guitar Tunings
By changing the tuning of one or several strings of a guitar, we can play combinations of notes that we previously couldn’t. Many of these “alternate tunings” have been explored extensively by ambitious musicians. These alternate tunings open up a whole new world for guitarists willing to look beyond the standard E A D G B E tuning. Drop D…
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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…