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DAF: Chord Fragments And Families
This chart gives you three chord/family fretboard positions that help you play chords and chord-based licks all over the fretboard in any key. You can move automatically from I-IV-V in three different places on the guitar (per key) using the same three or four note chord fragments you played when we discussed the DAF formation lesson.
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Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door Tab by Bob Dylan
Difficulty: Easy People love to hear this song. It’s very easy to play, too. Intro Here is what both parts sound like together : Guitar 1 Guitar 2 This part is played when the fifth measure comes in above. You count measures by the music bar in between that seperates each chord or progression. There…
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Travis Picking
This style is commonly played on steel string acoustic guitars. Pattern picking is the use of “preset right-hand pattern[s]” while fingerpicking, with the left hand fingering standard chords. This involves playing a steady bass pattern with the thumb and filling out some syncopated rhythms with the fingers of the right hand (assuming a right handed guitarist). It is a…
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Percussive Fingerstyle Guitar In Use
Many of you may have already learned this, but it is part of learning how to apply percussive fingerstyle, and I think this is still one of the best songs to use this for. This actually USES the body of the guitar to create percussion as opposed to the “Aerial Boundaries” lesson that can be interpreted either way.
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Across The Lines by Tracy Chapman
Release Date – April 1988 Tracy Chapman helped restore singer/songwriters to the spotlight in the ’80s. The multi-platinum success of Chapman’s 1988 debut was unexpected, and it had a lasting impact. Although Chapman was working from the same singer/songwriter foundation that had been popular in the ’70s, her songs were fresh and powerful, driven by…
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The History of Fingerstyle Guitar
Because notes are struck by individual digits rather than the hand working as a single unit, fingerstyle playing allows the guitarist to perform several musical elements simultaneously. One definition of the technique has been put forward by the Toronto (Canada) Fingerstyle Guitar Association: Physically, Fingerstyle refers to using each of the right hand fingers independently…
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Fingerstyle Guitar: Low Melody And High Melody
In this tutorial we’ll explore low melody and high melody by studying a rendition of the song “Danny Boy” in which we’ve applied fingerstyle. The song snippet itself isn’t hard to play or even finger, but you’ll see that there are a quite a few note-related points of interest. This is VERY common in fingerstyle guitar. You really have…
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String Bending Basics
Guitar bends (also referred to as “string bending” or “bending”) are produced by moving the stopped (held down) string with the fretting hand in a direction perpendicular to its axis and parallel to the fingerboard. String bends are one of few ways to achieve micro-tonality, especially blue notes, on the guitar. In other words, guitar…
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Dani California Tab by Red Hot Chili Peppers
Difficulty: Easy This is a fun and easy song to play, but only if you are familiar with a couple of common barre chord forms. It’s great for jamming with the band or just playing on your own. I know there’s a lot of you RHCP fans out there, so download it and play it…
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“I Did It” by Dave Matthews Band
Difficulty: Intermediate