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10 Music Things To Do This Weekend

Thursday, May 27, 2010

This weekend in the U.S. marks the Memorial Day holiday. A time to honor the men and women who serve (and have serve) our country. Along with that also usually comes an extended weekend holiday – most companies give their employees the following Monday off. What does that mean for those of us who have [...]

Chord Hacks: Chord Structures for Guitar

Monday, March 29, 2010

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What I would like to do, for the sake of this article as an introduction only, is to get you to look at the guitar for playing chords as groups of four notes. Typically your fretting hand only has four notes to work with because you only have four fingers to use. There are exceptions [...]

Chord Hacks: My 5 Favorite Chords

Thursday, March 18, 2010

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Every guitar player has their favorites; chords they just love to try and work into the songs they write, when they are comping, and when a friend asks to “show them something on the guitar.” I thought it would be fun to share a few of my favorites with you and, hopefully, get you to [...]

Chord Hacks: Multi-Use Chord Voicings

Monday, February 8, 2010

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Five chords, one fingering. Wouldn't that be a great way to learn guitar? Why struggle with trying to memorize thousands of chords when you can cut that number by half, five, or ten times? With multi-use chord voicings, it's possible!

Chord Hacks: String Group Inversions

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

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I don't know if you spent any time investigating the different string groups from my previous post, but I would like to continue exploring the string groups and how to bring some life to your chord playing.