admin on March 5th, 2009

To begin our lessons we are going to use colors to represent notes on the guitar. [...]

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admin on March 5th, 2009

Here are the guitar chord charts for the basic guitar bar chords. Included are major, minor and dominant guitar bar chords.
The Guitar Chord Charts:

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admin on March 5th, 2009

Barre chords (also known as barré chords and bar chords, but more commonly spelled as “barre”) are a type of guitar chord where one or more fingers are used to press down multiple strings across the guitar fingerboard (like a bar pressing down the strings). Barring the strings enables the guitarist to play a chord [...]

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By Mr. Desi Serna
Guitarists of all levels play melodies, riffs, lead guitar solos and bass lines using major scales. The notes of the major scale cover the whole fretboard. To learn this scale template, players break it up into smaller pieces. This article will discuss how this process works and address common issues concerning patterns, [...]

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admin on March 5th, 2009

By Ed Kopp
When you think of the blues, you think about misfortune, betrayal and regret. You lose your job, you get the blues. Your mate falls out of love with you, you get the blues. Your dog dies, you get the blues.While blues lyrics often deal with personal adversity, the music itself goes far beyond [...]

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admin on March 3rd, 2009

How to Learn to Play the Guitar - 5 Basic Steps to Learning the Guitar
By Brian Bonsell
You are wondering how to learn to play the guitar; you can easily pick up this instrument with some basic steps. Please understand that to become an expert will take time but with the following steps and [...]

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admin on February 28th, 2009

Guitar power chords are used extensively in all forms of rock music. They consist only of the 1, 5 and possibly another 1 an octave higher. Power chords are in fact the 2 or 3 bottom strings of guitar bar chords, but they are much easier to play compared to bar [...]

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