I have been speaking of chords that were constantly getting more complex but now let’s take a step backwards and try a very simple way of accompanying songs – fifth chords. When I spoke of seventh chords you may have noticed that in addition to the bass, the third and the seventh there was another [...]
Read more →My last post about constructing the chords got positive feedback and seemed to help people. So I will continue. I was talking about the principles of chord construction and more specifically about triads. Triads are theoretically the simplest chords but it doesn’t mean that they are the most easy ones to play on the guitar. [...]
Read more →The most common way to start off with the chords on guitar is to take a chord book or any simple online chord builder and just memorize them. I works well until the 3-chord songs are your ultimate goal. However, if you start wondering how to play a chord melody or how to find the [...]
Read more →One important part of a melody is the pitch but besides that we must deal with another highly important characteristic of notes – duration or length. You might have heard terms rhythm, meter, tempo. What are they? To produce rhythm, we need at least two notes, and they should not be played very far from [...]
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