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Hotel California- Faking The Intro
[VERSE] Bm F#7 On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair A E Warm smell of colitas rising up through the air G D Up ahead in the distance, I saw a shimmering light Em My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim F# I had to stop for the night
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Imagine by Chet Atkins
Chet Atkins was an absolute master of fingerstyle guitar. To play his rendition of “Imagine” by John Lennon pick the notes on the low E string and A string with your thumb, pick the notes on the D string with your 1st finger, pluck the notes in the G string with your 2nd finger, pluck…
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Hotel California Chord Progression (Verse)
Hotel California is a song with a lot going on. The original recording is layered heavily with guitars, including the signature 12 string guitar that opens the song and plays the chord progression in an arpeggiated manner. With all of this going on, there is still an underlying basic song structure. You don’t have to play…
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A/E
The A/E chord is a slash chord or compound chord. Just imagine playing an A chord, but substituting an E note as the lowest note instead of an A note. This diagram is one of the more common ways to play it when using an open A chord as your base.
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Hybrid Picking
Hybrid picking is a guitar-playing technique that involves picking with a pick and one or more fingers alternately or simultaneously. Hybrid picking allows guitar players who use a pick to perform music that would normally require fingerstyle playing. It also facilitates wide string leaps which might otherwise be quite difficult. Example This is the lick…