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About A Girl by Nirvana (Guitar Solo)
Difficulty: Easy This intro is rather easy because it basically repeats itself. You will be in standard tuning, so there’s no need to tune differently. The popular “solo” below is one of the only ones that Kurt Cobain ever really played. There is nothing going on here while he is playing except the bass line and drums, as…
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How To Play And Use Scales On The Guitar
Scales are the building blocks of music. They are a sequence of notes that provide a road map for just about everything including chord construction, chord progressions, songwriting, and soloing. Understanding scales is about as essential to a guitarist’s survival as water is to a fish. In a way, learning scales is kind of like learning what notes go together…
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“I’m Bad, I’m Nationwide” by ZZ Top
Intro In this guitar riff the first 3 measures of the intro are at 104 beats per minute. In the 4th measure the tempo turns to 80 beats per minute where the 3rd guitar part below plays a bluesy fill. Here’s what all the guitar parts sound like together: Guitar 1 Guitar 2 Guitar 3 Here’s the…
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Pentatonic Scales PDF And Instructional Video
The pentatonic scale is a 5 note scale that is widely used in rock, blues, country, and other genres. It’s very easy to learn, but hard to master. The pentatonic scale is use primarily used for soloing. Pentatonics Scales PDF Below is a download link for the pentatonic scale PDF. It tabs out the pentatonic scales in…
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Cmaj7 (C major seventh chord)
The C major seventh (also know as CM7, Cmaj7). Where major and minor triads have 3 different notes, 7th chords have 4. We can construct the CM7 chord by taking a look at the C Major Scale: We can take the 1st, 3rd, 5th notes of the scale to create the C major chord. To make a C major seventh…
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Dm7 (D minor seventh chord)
The D minor seventh (also know as Dm7, D-7). The notes include the root, minor third, perfect fifth, minor seventh. Dm7 (D minor seventh chord) A great chord vamp that you can use this with is a Dm7, G chord progression. Watch to the video for some ideas: How Does Dm7 Sound? What uses have…
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Ziggy Stardust by David Bowie
Difficulty: Easy Main Riff Riff Resources Complete Transcription To “Ziggy Stardust” (PDF) Complete Transcription To “Ziggy Stardust” (Power Tab)
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Woman From Tokyo by Deep Purple
Riff Rundown Difficulty: Intermediate Composer -Deep Purple Where to find this song -Who Do We Think We Are track #1 Release Date -February 1973 The Band: Ritchie Blackmore – guitar ( no longer with them) Ian Gillian – vocals Roger Glover – bass Ian Paice – drums Jon Lord – organ Deep Purple formed in…
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“The Rain Song” by Led Zeppelin
Riff Rundown Difficulty: Intermediate This song is tuned to E, A, D, A, D,E, so make sure you do that before you begin to play! The vertical lines at the beginning of the measures will tell you to perform a “rake” on the strings. Do this by just atrumming downward on the strings rather hard. Intro ( Part 1…