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30 essential acoustic guitar chords, with charts
In blues ‘dominant’ 7 chords (A7 or D7 for example) are more common than basic major, minor and sus chords. The A7, D7 and E9 ...
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5 ideas for how you can revoice guitar chords, and enhance your progressions
The 5th (G) is omitted completely from this voicing – a common practice in jazz ... to arrange voicings to ‘sit’ nicely in a chord progression (both to your ears and on the fretboard ...
Guitar modes lesson 1: The Ionian mode is the same as the major scale – here’s what makes it work
Joe Satriani, Eric Johnson, Eric Clapton and Randy Rhoads all used this fundamental guitar mode in their songs. Here, Stuart Ryan takes you through the basics of the Ionian mode and shows you how to ...
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“You’ll find it in many old blues tunes”: You need to learn how to solo over this chord progression
In this lesson, I’d like to discuss playing over what’s known as a I - VI - II - V (“one-six-two-five”) chord progression, which is common in a variety of musical styles, from country to ...