The Five Most Common Strum Patterns After learning their open chords, many students wish to expand their rhythmic palette. They discover that while they can finger many of the chord voicings of their favorite songs, the strum patterns remain alien and outside their grasp. Fortunately, rhythm patterns are akin to chord voicings in that some
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In contemporary guitar pedagogy, the rhythm hand (the right hand in right-handed individuals) is often overlooked. The initial stages of guitar tuition frequently stress learning open chord shapes as the primary curriculum. Little attention is paid to when and how to attack these voicings. It is my experience, therefore, that many of my students who
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Some of the first things any beginner learns after the parts of the guitar and the string names are the first few chords. Some of these are easier to grab than others, but with a bit of practice, it will come together within the first few months. In many cases, this is all it takes
As many of my students frequently ask me for recommendations for teachers of other instruments, I will begin posting articles about local teachers whom they may contact. Today we learn about Songbird Rising Suzuki School. Songbird Rising Suzuki School was established in 2009 in Hyde Park and offers year round violin lessons and summer camps. They
Secondary Dominants We’ve already learned how a V7 chord cadences to a I chord. To create tension and motion in a chord progression, we can mimic this cadence by build a dominant 7 chord a perfect fifth above any diatonic chord, as long a the root of that dominant chord happens to be a diatonic
As many of my students frequently ask me for recommendations for teachers of other instruments, I will begin posting articles about local teachers whom they may contact. Today we learn about Rob Roeder who can be found at robroeder.com/teaching.htm. Rob Roeder first taught bass while attending BIT, the bass section of Musician’s Institute in the late 1980s.
Borrowing From A Parallel Key So far we’ve limited ourselves to choosing chords diatonic to a key. However, when we want a more sophisticated sound, we can borrow chords from a key’s parallel minor or major. For instance, if we are in the key of A major, all the chords of the A minor key