Category: Lessons
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The Rule of Three
Triads are the building blocks of chords. But what are they really? To the uninitiated, they can be a little confusing. With a little thought, you will see that the concept isn’t that hard to understand.
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Mo’ Better Bass
Cover Photo by Katarina Bubenikova on Unsplash Apologies to Spike Lee for borrowing one of his movie titles. To improve your bass playing, see it as a percussive instrument. And bear in mind, the bass guitar is not a solo instrument, nor is it meant to be the star attraction. But it is critical in…
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Getting Your Ideas Recorded
Songwriting is one of my favorite aspects of being a musician and I consider great fun. As always, if you have any comments, critiques, and criticisms, I would love to hear from you. Please leave a message if you have any reaction to this or any other of my articles.
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The Elusive Art of Songwriting
Good songwriters are few and far between and good ones should be celebrated. Some great pops songs may be simple but writing them is anything but easy.
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Improvising In G: A Major Building Block to Guitar Mastery
The G major scale is a very common scale used in pop, rock, and country songs. It is a handy building block to further your guitar playing abilities.
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Guitar Maintenance – Changing Your Strings
Learning to change the strings and cleaning your guitar are relatively simple tasks to keep your guitar sounding good. While there is some skill involved and you do have to know what you are doing, it’s not that hard to learn.
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Learning the B Major Chord
In this lesson we set the bar higher and learn the B major chord, which will be for many novice players, your first attempt at a full barre chord.
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Learning the F Major Chord
If you are new to playing guitar, this will be your first step to learning barre chords – an essential guitar playing skill. It is a nice sounding chord so well worth the effort.
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Learning the A minor and E minor Chords
Minor chords are great for creating mood in your songwriting and guitar playing. Adding an occasional minor chord in the right place and sequence, will add dimension, flavor, tension and character to your music.