How To Read Slash Sheets
Slash sheets provide an overall structure for playing chords. This page will tell you how to read them.Read More »How To Read Slash Sheets |
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What are chord extensions?
Extensions are simply Major, minor, or Dominant 7th chords with one or more scale steps added to the formulas.Read More »What are chord extensions?
“Refugee” by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
Riff Rundown
Difficulty: Easy
“Refugee” was released in January 1980 as the second single from the Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers album Damn the Torpedoes.
Main Riff
The main riff consists of a rhythm guitar and lead guitar. The rhythm guitar riff is instantly recognizable to many. The lead guitar is overall pretty easy, except for the 4th and last measure, which includes a quick bend and slide that may be hard to transition between.
Operator by Jim Croce
Difficulty: Easy – Intermediate
Composer – Jim Croce
Where to find this song – You Don’t Mess Around With Jim track #7
Release Date – May 1972Read More »Operator by Jim Croce
What Is The Blues?
blues (bl
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- A state of depression or melancholy. Often used with the.
- 2. A style of music evolved from southern African-American secular songs and usually distinguished by a syncopated 4/4 rhythm, flatted thirds and sevenths, a 12-bar structure, and lyrics in a three-line stanza in which the second line repeats the first: “The blues is an expression of anger against shame and humiliation” (B.B. King).Read More »What Is The Blues?
Cats In The Cradle by Harry Chapin
Difficulty: IntermediateRead More »Cats In The Cradle by Harry Chapin
Crash Into Me by Dave Matthews Band
The Dave Matthews Band is a band of unlikely sorts. Their music is folksy, yet they have a jazz quality as well. The cat-and-mouse styling… Read More »Crash Into Me by Dave Matthews Band
Black Water by The Doobie Brothers
Difficulty: Intermediate
Guitar 1 and 2 is tuned to : D, A, D, G, B, D
Guitar 3 is in standard tuningRead More »Black Water by The Doobie Brothers