Chord Guitar
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Blues Guitar Chords Tutorial: The Twelve Bar Blues
This article expands on your knowledge of blues guitar chords by explaining how to play the twelve bar blues, which is the basis of many blues songs. For this article, you should know how to play the following basic guitar chords: C, F, G, and the following essential blues guitar chords: C7, F7, G7. If you don't know how to play those chords, read my article "Blues Guitar Chords Tutorial: 7 Essential Blues Guitar Chords". Twelve Bar Blues Basic Read More... -
How To Play Blues Guitar Like BB King
If you want to learn how to play blues guitar like B.B King you must first understand and learn to recognize by ear the evolution of the blues chord progressions. Although B.B King's style is almost exclusively single note lead lines and riffs, one of the key secrets' to his sound is the chord progressions played in the background, this gives B.B's notes their different musical color. I recommend beginning to learn how to play blues guitar like Read More... -
Guitar Chord Theory Part 3 - Diminished and Augmented Chords
In part 2 of guitar chord theory we discussed how to construct major and minor triads. Remember a triad is any chord consisting of three notes. The root, third and fifth of the major scale and the different chord qualities like major and minor are made by either flatting the third of leaving it the the same. Today's lesson will consist of learning how to construct diminished and augmented chords. First let's discuss the diminished triad since y Read More...
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