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In this deep-dive music theory analysis, we explore how John Lennon fit 10 distinct chords into just 8 bars in his song ...

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In this tab and video lesson, Joe dons a metal guitar slide and unpacks the late Irish blues legend's glissando magic ...

This will unlock not only more tuning options, but the more advanced features as well—like intermediate chords, alternate and custom guitar tunings, a chromatic tuner, ear trainer program ...

For example, if you have a chord A and you want to set the note interval to 1 bar and the note duration to 1.5 bars, you can use the built-in method set of the chord class. The first parameter of set ...

The other effects and tuner are engaged via the pushable plastic knobs on the guitar and are relatively ... Being able to loop some chord changes and jam over them on an otherwise “acoustic ...

We’ve touched on his words being vital to the mix, with his hushed baritone also essential, but arguably, his guitar playing really set him apart. An early innovator of open tunings, this allowed him ...

Credit: Graham Wiltshire/Redferns/Getty Images Open G tuning is an alternate tuning favored by Keith Richards and requires the guitar to be ... open strings form a G chord, but, where open D ...

However, guitarists often struggle to keep their instruments in tune. The small mechanisms on the headstock, called guitar tuning pegs, play an important role in this struggle. When these mechanisms ...

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