Aug 11

Basic Guitar Patterns

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Beginning guitar and folk guitar are sometimes missing from our forum so I have listed here some basic finger picking “Travis Style” and basic strum patterns for easy guitar.

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Written by Alex on Friday 11th August 2006 at 1:23pm and posted in Techniques

Aug 11

Drop 2 Chord Voicings

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One of the most important skills that a guitarist needs to have is the ability to build and understand chord voicings. The old days of buying chord books and trying to memorize 1000’s of chords is not only a daunting task but also is needless and generally a waste of time. It is so much easier to learn how chords are voiced and to be able to build chords as you need to by some relatively basic steps that can be easily learned . This lesson teaches you the Drop 2 voicing.

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Written by Alex on Friday 11th August 2006 at 1:10pm and posted in Music Theory

Aug 11

Drop 3 Chord Voicings

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This article is about the Drop 3 chord voicing for the guitar. This is one of the most important voicings and the one used by more Jazz and blues guitarists because of its versatillity and wealth of useable inversions and possible alterations and reductions. Enough said about this voicing, let’s get into its structure and shapes.

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Written by Alex on Friday 11th August 2006 at 12:23pm and posted in Music Theory

Aug 09

Slayer - Christ Illusion

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Slayer’s 10th studio album has just been release in the US with a UK release date set to the 21st August. The release was planned for the 6th June to make a reference to the number of the devil, but delays in recording prevented this. Instead, an EP featuring one new track "Cult" (along with a live track of "War Ensemble" and a video of the recording of "Cult") was released.

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Written by Alex on Wednesday 9th August 2006 at 3:40pm and posted in Music Reviews, Reviews

Aug 07

Gypsy Jazz Lick over A7

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This lick was played to me at the Gysy Guitar Festival last weekend and I thought it would make a good introduction to learning some Gypsy Jazz solo lines. The line is played over an A7 chord and can be moved around the next to play over other 7th chord shapes.

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Written by Alex on Monday 7th August 2006 at 1:43pm and posted in Learn To Play

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