Aug 11
Swing Style Walking Blues Blues is is the foundation of most popular musical styles. It is the common language that can bring rockers and Jazzers together. I made a post about this on the old site’s forum, and thought I would expand on it here.
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Written by Alex on Friday 11th August 2006 at 1:27pm and posted in Learn To Play
Aug 11
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
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

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’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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