Pentatonic scales are one of the cornerstones of music, offering easy learning and application across genres of music. Pentatonic scales have the advantage of being easily understood by our brains; Bobby McFerrin conducted various experiments where he asked audiences to sing simple pentatonic sequences, and each audience member picked them up immediately. Position 1 Position […]
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Bob Marley’s Redemption Song is an easy and timeless guitar classic, ideal for beginning guitarists to learn. It requires only basic power chords and is very straightforward. Once you’ve learned it well enough to play it competently, a riff such as this is perfect for showing your friends and family as an impressive show of
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George Harrison was known as the “quiet Beatle”, and this spirituality came through on his debut solo single. It became a #1 hit and even led to a high-profile copyright infringement case against Ronnie Mack’s 1963 hit He’s So Fine. Diminished chords may not always be easy to play, but their tension-inducing quality adds something
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Wagon Wheel is an accessible country song designed for beginner guitarists, offering simple chords and an accessible strumming pattern to learn quickly. Additionally, this tune follows a familiar 1-5-2-6 progression used frequently by country music composers. In this tutorial, you’ll learn the guitar chords to Darius Rucker and Old Crow Medicine Show’s wagon wheel song
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Major chords are typically the first guitar chords beginners learn, since they’re the easiest and simplest to play. Chords are represented on a chart as horizontal lines representing frets. An “X” denotes unplayed strings while “O” circles or zeros indicate open strings. E Major Slide A E major slide is a variation on a standard
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Once you’ve mastered all of the fundamental beginner guitar chords, seventh chords offer an ideal next step to spice up basic major and minor chords with just one extra note! In this lesson we’ll look at four distinct seventh chords with D roots, all movable shapes that can be moved up and down the neck.
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A chord on the piano consists of any combination of three or more notes, and there’s an easy formula you can follow to form major chords starting on any note at the piano. C is the root note and G the third interval; these combined to make a C major chord. Root Note Root Note
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Guitar chord diagrams may seem daunting at first, particularly to beginners. Although their appearance differs significantly from TAB notation, their function remains the same. The vertical lines represent your strings, beginning with the thickest (Low E) at one end and progressing to thinnest at another (High E). Black dots represent where your fingers must press
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Coco’s Song provides an ideal opportunity for beginners to develop fingerpicking and strumming skills with its simple chord structure and straightforward rhythm pattern, perfect for practicing their fingerpicking or strumming techniques. “Leaving on a Jet Plane” is an enjoyable tune with its catchy melody and laidback pace. Additionally, its easy strumming pattern and few open
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No matter if you are learning blues, jazz or rock chord progressions – 7th chords should form part of your chord vocabulary. They add another layer of nuanced sound compared to simple triad chords. All of the 7th chord diagrams below are moveable – meaning you can move them up or down the fretboard to
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