Tag: guitar capo
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Playing Guitar is Kids Stuff
Playing Guitar is Kids Stuff Learning anything—whether it’s your ABCs, tying your shoelaces, playing baseball, swimming, or playing guitar—depends on practice. How well you perform any task depends on how effectively you train your brain, mind, and muscles. Learning to play guitar is no different from learning to drive a car or ride a bike.…
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Guitars, a Brief History
Guitars, A Brief History   Starting out as a 4 stringed potbellied lute, the common guitar has a very colorful and checkered past. From the sands of the Middle East to the largest live concerts in the world. Read this fascinating Bio of the common Guitar.  Historians believe the guitar originated in ancient…
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When is a 3 Chord Song Not
When is a 3 Chord Song Not In the first octave of a guitar, there are 12 major fret positions on the fretboard for each of the 12 notes: E, F, F#, G, G#, A, A#, B, C, C#, D, D#. The second octave of these same notes begins again with the note E, after…
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The Guitar Takes Center Stage
The Guitar Takes Center Stage   For thousands of years, playing music was a family tradition. Babies were raised listening to guitar music, so learning to play the guitar was often an easy, natural process for them.  As a semi-retired local musician with over 50 years of experience, I was considering retiring from…