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Jazz Guitar Chords - Tutorial
This guitar tutorial is for players that can already play to a good basic standard. I’ve written a guitar TAB and music notation chart that uses triads (three note chords) and have also added a simple bass part. I’ve used a common ch...
Guitar Chords - How to Make E chords Part 5
This is Part 5 of the 6 part series in Guitar Chords - How to Make E chordsAs stated in the other articles on Making Guitar Chords , chords generally have a 3rd, 5th and 7th. So to make an E Major Chord we need the first third and fifth of an E...
How Guitar Chords are Made - Part 4 of 6
These Chords are based around the Key of A. The Key of A has 3 sharps (#) C sharp, F sharp and G Sharp. As before in the last article, if you look at the music stave above, you’ll notice that I have numbered each note and also given it a...
How Guitar Chords are Made - Part 3
Here is the 3rd article in the series of How Guitar Chords are Made, in this one I am covering D chords. Note how in the first article C Chords, the Key of C has no sharps (#)or Flats (b) , wheras the G scale has one sharp. The key of D, you may...
How Guitar Chords are Made - Part 2
This is part 2 of a 6 Part series on Chord Construction for guitar. In my previous article on How Guitar Chords Are Made I covered three basic C chords. In this Article I shall cover three basic G chords. As before in the last article, if yo...
Guitar Chords
In my previous article I wrote about guitar chords consisting of a 1st , a 3rd, and a 5th. I thought I’d write a short article to reinforce the learning. The key of C consists of the notes: C D E F G A B and for those that live in Europe, the B...
Guitar Chords - How They Are Made
This is part 1 of a 6 Part series on Chord Construction for guitar. How chords are made is not that difficult to understand. You will require a tiny bit of patience and the ability to count up to 13 and also know the alphabet from A to G. Having ...
Jazz Guitar Moving Bass Parts - Part 3
Jazz Guitar moving bass parts is the third guitar lesson in this series of tutorials. Although this chord fretting exercise includes the previous guitar part, it moves up the guitar neck to the E minor to A Seventh chords, when you play it it will so...
Jazz Guitar Moving Bass Parts - Part 2
Jazz guitar is more than just playing a few major 7 and minor 7 chords. These chords existed and can be found in many classical pieces and other music forms. I will not in this article attempt to define jazz guitar but I will continue on from wha...
Jazz Guitar Moving Bass Parts
If you are just begining to learn to play jazz guitar chord changes, you’ll love this. It is a simple four chord pattern in C major: C major 7 , A minor 7 , D minor 7 and a G 7; commonly known as a 1 6 4 5 chord pattern. I’ve written ...
Guitar - 7th Triads for Mobility
In this guitar tutorial I cover Chord triads using 7th chords. Have you ever found that when you are playing guitar that your chords sound a bit BIG and that you’d like to create a bit more space for the other players? Here’s a great solu...
Twelve Guitar Tips for Getting Rid of Guitar Cobwebs
Many guitar players that I have met have managed to play at very high standard but due to life’s circumstances they found themselves in situations where they virtually stopped playing guitar. It could be because family, disillusionment with the m...
Joe Pass - Guitar Improvisation
The late great Joe Pass is a perfect example of someone that has mastered improvisation on the guitar. Although he didn’t play straight acoustic guitar, he was a master of the semi-acoustic, what’s a few different shaped sound holes amo...
Blues Scales Ideas You Never Thought Of
TIRED OF PLAYING THAT SAME OLD BLUES SCALE? In keeping with my secret desire to help raise the standard of guitar players globally, I decided to sit down and write another tutorial for those players that want to extend their playing a little when p...
E Blues Scale Variations
Improve your Blues Guitar playing Blues guitar players. You know when you get a little bit stale with your guitar playing, you find yourself improvising the same as you always have and you feel you want something to help break your habits. Well to...
Guitar Warm Up Exercise
Free Tab and Guitar Notation guitar Exercises Sometimes there’s very little time to warm up before playing a live gig. you’ve done everything right, been organised, turn up early and kappow, everything goes skewiff. I always like t...
E Minor 12 bar blues
Learning to play a Twelve Bar Blues is very common. What I’ve done is written out a simple 12 Bar blues but in a minor key instead of using the standard seventh chords. It has a much softer feel than the standard E7 A7 B7. What you will use i...
Simple Chord Progressions using Triads
My previous post was about using triads, three note chords. Many guitar players would be familiar with the common four chord progression C Am Dm G If you’ve been doing a little study about music over the years you’d probably know th...
E Blues Triads made easy
For some guitar players the following article, tab and notation could be some of the most useful material that you have got their hands on in a long time. Don’t be fooled by the simpleness of it. When the penny drops and the light comes on...
