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Chords and progressions for popular songs

access_time 2022-04-21T07:36:14.262Z face Tony Das
Learning Guitar: Chords and progressions for popular songs By Tony Das Published on: We’ll explore a couple of songs, starting with “Give Me One Reason” by Tracy Chapman, which uses just three chords, all of which are seventh chords. Apart from this, we’ll also learn how to play Magnolia by J.J. Ca...

How to turn three-note chords into seventh chords

access_time 2022-04-21T07:26:55.641Z face Tony Das
Learning Guitar: How to turn three-note chords into seventh chords By Tony Das Published on: Seventh chords essentially take 3-note chords and add the seventh note on the corresponding scale. We’ll be taking the existing chords (C, Dm, Em, F, G, Am, B dim) in the key of C Major and arriving at thei...

Improve versatility by switching to bar chords

access_time 2022-04-20T12:53:34.951Z face Tony Das
Learning Guitar: Improve versatility by switching to bar chords By Tony Das Published on: We use our index finger to bar all six strings (by flattening the index finger), and the remaining fingers in various positions in front of that bar to play different chord shapes. The bar is an easy way to ta...

Master the A minor pentatonic and blues scale

access_time 2022-04-20T11:26:07.943Z face Tony Das
Learning Guitar: Master the A minor pentatonic and blues scale By Tony Das Published on: The pentatonic scale has 5 notes in it. Finger Position for A Minor Pentatonic Scale: 6th String: Frets 5 and 8 | 5th String: Frets 5 and 7 | 4th String: Frets 5 and 7 | 3rd String: Frets 5 and 7 | 2nd String: ...

Improve speed and fluency with sixteenth note rhythms

access_time 2022-04-20T10:53:13.703Z face Tony Das
Learning Guitar: Improve speed and fluency with sixteenth note rhythms By Tony Das Published on: We play 16 strokes for 4 clicks of the metronome. There are many songs that require you to break up the 4 clicks, to get finer levels of control over the beats played in the middle. The fun part of this...