Archive for May, 2010
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15
May
2010
Acoustic Blues Guitar Lessons Review
I recently posted a new review on the site on Jim Bruce’s Ragtime & Blues Guitar Fingerpicking Course, which has 16 full length videos, each of which will teach you to play a classic blues or ragtime song in a fingerpicking style.
If you’d like to build your repertoire of guitar pieces and expand your playing style to include fingerstyle guitar and even slide guitar, then it’d be worth having more of a look at this course.
Here’s a video preview of Jim giving an intro to the fingerpicking blues guitar style, including the intro and a verse of a song called ‘Truckin Little Baby‘ by Blind Boy Fuller:
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13
May
2010
Guitar Chord Theory - Seventh Chords
In a previous post on the topic of guitar chord theory, I talked about how regular major chords are created from the 1, 3 & 5th notes of the major scale.
To recap, here are the C Major scale notes, with the 1, 3, 5 notes highlighted:
which leads to the regular C Major chord as played in open position on the guitar:
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OK, so far so good, we have our basic C major chord, and can see where it came from.
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