Beginner Acoustic Guitar Basics lesson 4 – E minor and A minor chords
Playing any musical instrument would never be complete without learning minor chords. They are used in all kinds of musical compositions to create discord at times, as well as to create suspense or alternate moods with particular chord progressions. Minor chords are very similar to major chords except that they alter 1 note in the chord. A major chord is typically complete when it has 3 notes: the root, the 3rd and the 5th. If you were playing a C major...
Read More...Beginner Acoustic Guitar Basics lesson 3 – D, A and E chords.
Now that you have learned how to read guitar chord charts, and have been introduced to 2 of the most common chord forms, the G and C chords and some open variations, the next 3 chords will complete the series on open chord forms completing the C-A-G-E-D series of open chords. If you have missed these lessons, please review them on this site. Keep a consistent practice schedule and continue to add to your repertoire of studies in order to become a good beginner...
Read More...Learning Basic Guitar: Open Chords C-A-G-E-D part 2 – the C Chord in 3 Forms
In the previous lesson, you learned 3 forms of the open chord G. If you have not had time to learn those 3 alternate fingerings, please see that lesson and master the open forms of the G major Chord. In this next lesson, we will be working on forms of the open chord C major. Recall from the previous lesson that G, C, and D work well together in the keys of G and C for songs or chord progressions in those keys. As you learn chords, it is good to study and...
Read More...Easy 12 Bar Blues Progression Tutorial
Learning to play the 12 bar blues is fun. Some beginners may feel that learning blues guitar is some what daunting but that isn't the case. There are only 3 main components to learning the 12 bar blues: what chords, what order and how to play the chords. In this article I'm going to walk your through all three. At the end of this article there's a video lesson that supports the material you'll read here, I suggest you watch the video as well. So how do you determine what...
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