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Funk guitar playing with whammy bar
This is a unique way to combine funk guitar playing and the whammy bar, the full piece can be heard on "with you" from Screaming Headless Torsos' "Code Red" release. the chords are Ab7#5 to Dbm7(9/11) -
Know the feeling techniques on the guitar
In this set of techniques, we will talk about the ways to give feeling or sentiment to the notes. Not simply playing the notes but the different ways of playing them. In other words, the same note can be played in different ways to achieve different effects. -
6 mistakes every beginner should avoid
Many beginners are challenged and make mistakes almost instinctively that cause setbacks and difficulties; in many cases, these demotivate the student, even to the point of making him abandon the study of the guitar. But even the most experienced guitarists have at some point had to face challenges and identify and correct mistakes in order to gradually master their mastery of the instrument. -
Chord progressions: How to structure chords in your compositions
If you are wondering how to write a song and don't know where to start your arrangement, chord progressions are the best starting point.
In this article, you will learn what chord progressions are, how to build better progressions, and how to integrate them into your songs.
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Add flavor to your progressions with secondary dominants
It probably happened to you sometime that you were writing a chord progression, you played it and felt that it sounded like 90% of popular music, o... -
Improve your solos with the triads
If we want to acquire additional resources to make our solos and improvisations more interesting, we cannot simply learn the notes of a scale-whether, it is the major scale or any other type of scale. Basing the melodic lines of our improvisations solely on scales will make our performance sound mechanical and uninteresting to our listeners. -
Stuck? How to overcome stagnation in guitar
Throughout our lives as guitarists, we have times when everything flows, and our learning curve is huge, and other times when you do not know well how to continue progressing on the guitar and how to face it. You feel that you are not progressing, that you are always playing the same thing and this translates into frustration and worst of all, lack of fun with the guitar. -
Get to know the best pick techniques
Have you ever thought about how many ways to play the guitar with a pick there are?
With it, you can play arpeggios, strums, phrases and solos, and even make some special effects that work as arrangements when creating or playing a song.
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The best warm-ups before playing the guitar
Would you like to gain speed, ease, and dexterity with your fingers when playing the guitar? Have you ever felt frustrated because of that solo you like so much you can't get it out? With these warm-up exercises for guitar before playing, you can gain the fluency and agility needed to play more fluently.
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Most used scales and modes in rock and heavy metal
If you play the guitar, you will surely want to know which scales and modes are the most used in rock and heavy metal. First and foremost, good ban... -
How to have a good technique on the guitar
Whatever your style of music is, you have to know the basics of the guitar to learn to play it. Learn to place your fingers to make certain chords or arpeggios. Each style has its own techniques, but it is impossible to advance if you do not know them. Technique is one thing that all styles have in common
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How many guitar scales are there?
Scales are a succession of intervals or the particular distance between the notes that make up the scale itself. They are structures and formulas t...
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