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Needle And The Damage Done by Neil Young
Composer – Neil Young Where to find this song – Harvest track # 9 Release Date – February 1972 The Bio: After Neil Young left the folk-rock band Buffalo Springfield in 1968, he slowly established himself as one of the most influential singer/songwriters of his generation. Young’s body of work is much like Bob Dylan’s…
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Moving Scale Shapes
There is a big difference between a scale pattern and the actual scale. The actual scale is only 5 notes. When we are learning scale patterns we are learning the location of the notes from the scale as they appear on the fretboard. The same 5 notes repeat themselves over and over on the guitar’s fretboard. What we need…
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The Five Basic Chord Shapes
The five basic chord shapes are open C, A, G, E, and D chords. Together they spell the word CAGED which helps us remember them. What To Do This is your very first step! If you do not know how to play these 5 basic chords then you should learn and memorize each chord pattern.…
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Tonic
The tonic is the first scale degree of a diatonic scale (for example, the major scale, is a diatonic scale). Sometimes it’s called the 1st scale step, or the 1st. The tonic is often confused with the root, which is the reference note of a chord, rather than that of the scale. It is often…
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Signe by Eric Clapton
Difficulty:Intermediate NO PICK on this one guys and gals! It’s just too hard to play that way. The acoustic is in standard tuning. For a real challenge, play it on a nylon acoustic if you have one. Talk about a workout!
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Compressor
So what exactly is a compressor? A compressor is a signal processor that is used to reduce the dynamic range between the softest and loudest parts of the audio signal. Think of the sound of your guitar as a wave. There is a peak where it is at its highest level and a trough where it…
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Phase Shifter
Phase shifters are like flangers except they have multiple flanges going on at the same time and sometimes with no predetermined speed. Both are great additions to any guitar player’s set-up.
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Drop D Tuning Chords For Guitar
Drop D tuning is great, but playing chords requires some adjustment. This article contains several chord charts of chord voicings for drop D tuning. Getting tuned to drop D is a simple endeavor. The low E string is tuned down one whole step to D. The rest of the strings remain the same. You’ll end…
