Do I need to know scales in order to solo?
You don’t need to know scales to play lead guitar, or for that matter, any instrument. A lot of the old blues players claim that… Read More »Do I need to know scales in order to solo?
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How To Use A Capo
You can use a capo to easily change the key of a song. A lot of people do this so that they can sing the song in a range that is comfortable. Regardless of where you place a capo, the idea is that you create a ‘floating nut’. Read More »How To Use A Capo
What Is A Chord/Lyric Sheet?
A chord/lyric sheet usually contains (1) the chords used in the song (2) the lyrics within the song. Read More »What Is A Chord/Lyric Sheet?
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 |
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?
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?
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
Guitar 1 and 2 is tuned to D, A, D, G, B, D Guitar 3 is in standard tuning Intro Verse Chorus Solo Complete Transcription… Read More »Black Water by The Doobie Brothers
I’d Love To Change The World by Ten Years After
Intro Verse 1 What we did here is have two guitar parts playing on the second bar. One is playing the picked out part, and… Read More »I’d Love To Change The World by Ten Years After
Maggie May by Rod Stewart
Key Of: D Solo: D Pentatonic Major (with a few alternates) Instruments: Acoustic Guitar Tuning: Standard “Maggie May” is a song written by Rod Stewart… Read More »Maggie May by Rod Stewart