Students learn to recognize and compose melodic structures. This course also delves into the constituent parts of triads and seventh chords. Utilizing only two fingers, practice playing both E7 and A7 open chords – taking care not to hit the sixth string while playing A7! Dominant Seventh Chords The dominant seventh chord has an inimitable […]
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Music Zone is a retailer of musical equipment and dance music headquartered in Levenshulme, Greater Manchester in the United Kingdom with 104 stores as well as an online business and the radio station DMZ under their ownership. At Burning Man this year, a form of dance music known as playa tech is emerging as one
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No matter your musical background or skill level, this song offers something for every acoustic guitar player looking for slow-tempo tunes or starting power chords for the first time. Plus it introduces you to an important technique called raking that will come in handy for fingerpicking more complex songs in future! An entertaining song featuring
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Beginners often struggle to grasp this crucial foundational shape for playing guitar. Achieve complete proficiency at this shape requires practice and confidence in manipulating its two lowest strings as part of effective muting techniques. There are easier versions of the D shape to help beginners progress toward mastery of its full chord correctly. Barre Chord
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Beginners typically begin learning major and minor triads as the foundational chords for most songs. These chords are composed of intervals (major and minor thirds and perfect fifths) played in combinations. By understanding them, you’ll soon be able to play any chord. 1. G Major G major is a basic chord comprised of G, B
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No matter if you play bass guitar, keyboard bass, or another instrument requiring amplification, a quality amplifier can make your sound stand out. A combo amp combines an amplifier “head” and speakers in one piece of equipment making it easy to carry to gigs or rehearsals. Selecting a bass amp requires some important considerations. Read
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Beginners might benefit from learning these no capo guitar chords as a first step to learning to play the instrument. Hey Soul Sister has an easy picking pattern and open chords which won’t cause any hassle to beginners. 1. Riptide by Vance Joy Vance Joy, an Australian troubadour, co-wrote and produced Riptide alongside drummer Edwin
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Though his poetry may not be as widely recognized today in Australia, Banjo Paterson remains popular and our digitised collections provide a fascinating look into his life and work. Banjo attended Sydney University before finding employment as a law clerk, qualifying as a solicitor, and publishing poetry in The Bulletin journal. During this period he
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SpongeBob Squarepants’s antagonist Squidward Q Tentacles may look like an angry sea squid, but in reality he’s an octopus with ten arms! Stephen Hillenburg named him Squidward due to how oddly Octoward would sound; so instead they gave him his familiar nickname of Squidward instead. Squidward enjoys listening to music, particularly clarinet — but certain
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Woody Guthrie traveled throughout America performing songs for workers and farmers alike. He became well known for reviving classic folk ballads while creating numerous new ones of his own, most famously “This Land Is Your Land,” which eventually became our national anthem. By the late 1940s, Guthrie began showing symptoms of Huntington’s disease and eventually
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