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Major Arpeggios: Open Position
Here are five basic major arpeggio shapes you can play in the open position.
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Major Chords
The five basic chord shapes are the open C, A, G, E, and D chords. Together they spell the word CAGED which helps us remember them.
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Amending Chords
Here we’ll deal with Amending Chords and Leaving Out Notes.
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Beast Of Burden by The Rolling Stones
Difficulty: Intermediate The Rolling Stones have been around a long time and it’s not because of their good looks. It’s because of their phenomenal music. These guys can jam! This song is perfect example of their layered guitar approach. It contains really nice guitar parts that are fun to learn and play- not to mention educational. Give it…
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“Always” by Blink 182
Difficulty: Easy The new-school punk trio blink-182 was formed near San Diego, California around Tom Delonge, Mark Hoppus, and original drummer Scott Raynor. Originally known as Blink, the band debuted in 1993 with a self-released album called “Fly Swatter”. After releasing the album “Buddha” in 1994, the trio signed to Grilled Cheese/Cargo records and released “Cheshire Cat” the following year.…
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Overdrive
Some distortion effects provide an “overdrive” effect. Either by using a vacuum tube, or by using simulated tube modeling techniques, the top of the wave form is compressed, thus giving a smoother distorted signal than regular distortion effects. When an overdrive effect is used at a high setting, the sound’s waveform can become clipped, which…
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C Shape Barre Chord
While the C major in open position should be no sweat to you by now, the barred version is a little more challenging. It’s hard to get at first, but don’t you dare skip it. It’s important know this shape.
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Which Scale: Improvising With Pentatonics
The stage is set. The fans have gathered and the band opens up with it’s first song. Quick, it’s time for a solo, but what do you play? That’s easy. We’ll just improvise! “To improvise means to make it up on the spot, right?”, you ask. Yes, we’re going to make the solo up as…
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Awake by Godsmack
Difficulty: Intermediate You will need to tune to : Drop D and down one step (C, G, C, F, A, D)