Tag: guitar chords
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A Tenth Is Just a Wide Third
Blackbird, Scar Tissue, and Love Yourself don’t sound anything alike. Their guitar parts are built on the same interval, and it only takes two fingers.
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The Dominant Seventh Wants to Go Somewhere
Guitarists learn the dominant 7th as a chord shape. It’s actually an engine.
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CAGED Is a Starting Point
The CAGED system is a useful way to organize the fretboard. The mistake is treating it like music theory.
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Voice Leading on Guitar
Guitarists learn chord shapes. Pianists learn how notes move between chords. This gap explains more than you’d think.