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G/B Chord
The G/B chord is a slash chord or slashed chord, also called a compound chord. A slash chord is a chord whose bass note or inversion is indicated by the addition of a slash and the letter of the bass after the root note letter. It does not indicate “or”. So, in other words: slash chords are just normal chords with one note changed. The note altered is…
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Speed Building Workout 29
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Power Chords vs. Barre Chords
A power chord is but a fragment of a barre chord, but they are much easier to play than a barre chord. This allows you to quickly change chords, but they don’t offer the harmonic quality found in a full bar chord. So which one do you play in a given piece? While power chords…
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Silent Night Fingerstyle
This is a very pretty version of Silent Night fingerstyle. To play it, you’ll want to tune your guitar to D, G, D, G, B, E. To do this you’ll only have to tune your low E and A string down a full step, so it’s not too much trouble. It’s well worth the effort!…
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Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
Every year around Christmas time the radio airwaves fill with Christmas music. Why not get in on the game and play your own Christmas music? “Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer” is just as good as any. Did you know Gene Autry’s recording of the song hit No. 1 on the Billboard pop singles chart the week of…
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The Real Me by The Who
Difficulty: Easy Intro Be sure to put a capo on the 3rd fret to play in key… Here’s what it sounds like looped at the normal tempo of 140 bpm: Video Bass Guitar Part The Bass guitar player gets to show off a little bit on this one… Video Complete Tab Complete Transcription To “The Real Me”…
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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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Free Blues Guitar Lessons: 12 Bar, Licks, Songs
Sign up for our free blues guitar newsletter and I’ll send you free blues guitar lessons that are exclusive to the newsletter. Enter your name and e-mail address below to begin receiving issues: Free Blues Guitar Lessons Include… The free blues guitar lessons that you’ll discover with our newsletter include the following topics: Blues Progressions…
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Open Guitar Chord Chart
Below is a handy open guitar chord chart that you can download and print for offline viewing. Open chords are guitar chords that utilize open strings. They should be among the first chords a guitarist learns. Don’t know how to read a chord diagram like you see in the chord chart? Learn how here. If…
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Chord Substitution: Major 7th Chords
Major 7th Chords PDF Where major and minor triads have 3 different notes, 7th chords have 4. The major seventh chord refers to where the “seventh” note is a major seventh above the root . This is also known as the major/major seventh chord, and it can be written as maj7, M7. Major 7th chords are different than dominant 7th chords (whose 7th is…