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| Triad Improvisation Part 3. |
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In this installment Triad Improvisation Part 3. We will take a look at triads on the 5,4,3 strings of the guitar. Again we will use the major chord forms as a reference to the rest of the triads to keep things simple. The major form is the first chord in each example followed by augmented,minor then diminished. You should also memorize each form!
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| Triad Improvisation Part 2. |
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| In this installment Triad Improvisation Part 2. We will take a look at triads on the 4,3,2 strings of the guitar. As mentioned in Part 1. A triad is a chord with only 3 notes. They are built by using the (1) Root (3rd) and (5th) of the major scale if the triad is Major. In the key of G the notes would be G,B,D |
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| New Online Courses Starting at Berkleemusic.com |
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| Berkleemusic, the online extension school of Berklee College of Music, is now enrolling four brand-new online music courses for their March 1st and April 5th semesters. |
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| Chet Atkins "Country Gentleman" Guitar Sculpture |
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| Gibson's Chet Atkins "Country Gentleman" guitar model has been added as a featured instrument for GuitarTown, a public art project in Nashville to showcase the talents of visual artists on 10-foot-tall guitar sculptures. |
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| New Texas Havana Model By STHAC Guitars |
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| The new Texas Havana features include 2 handmade Kinman 56 and the genuine DiMarzio Tone Zone S pickups, from the authentic vintage sound to modern blues-rock, 22 frets Brazilian Rosewood fingerboard, AAA flamed US Maple neck and 1 piece Swamp Ash body. Controls include volume, tone (push/pull), and a 5-way pickup selector. As you might guess, the Texas Havana is intended for Blues, Country-Blues, Blues-Rock, Pop and Rock. |
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| Gibson Guitar Corp. says digital is the future |
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| Gibson Guitar Corp. will start shipping an initial run of its new digital guitar in April. The first run of 3,000 instruments will retail for about $2,600 each. It looks, sounds and acts like a Les Paul, but it's not. The technology in the standard electric guitar dates to the 1920s, with few major changes. The electric guitar is monophonic: The sound from each of the six guitar strings is "picked up" and sent as an analog signal to devices such as amplifiers and receivers. |
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| Lost John Lennon Guitar on Sale for $1.3M |
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| A guitar said to have belonged to John Lennon, and engraved with his intricate carvings, went on sale on an auction website today for $1.3 million. The ?lost? guitar is adorned with symbols, including a heart pierced by an arrow, and a self portrait by the former Beatle. |
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| Pete Townshend SJ-200 Signature Guitar by Gibson Guitars |
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| Gibson Montana and rock icon Pete Townshend have recreated the 1960s J-200 that he used to pen such classic hits as "Pinball Wizard" from The Who's 1969 rock opera Tommy and "Won't Get Fooled Again." The new Pete Townshend SJ-200 Limited has all the classic appointments of his vintage guitar, plus a pickup and a lighter neck contour. Townshend currently uses the guitar in all of his acoustic performances. |
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| New Vendetta Series Electric Guitars from Dean |
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| Dean Guitars introduces a new line of cool electric guitars for 2004 called the Vendetta series. With four models to choose from the Vendettas have a string through body design, classic Dean V Ferrule pattern, dual Humbuckers, 25.5 scale, and solid mahogany bodies with a maple neck with a rosewood finger board. Read on..... |
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| Import HardTail Models Introduced by Dean Guitars |
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| New from Dean Guitars are imported versions of the HardTail. Modeled after the $3300 USA beauty, the new Hardtail Standard and Selects have a 'set' neck with molded heel, mahogany body and neck, rosewood fingerboard, Grover tuners, nickel hardware and two coil tappable humbuckers. |
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| Riff Interactive Releases Jam Sessions - Funk Style |
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| The Jam Session CDs from Riff Interactive are designed to teach you theory and technique, rhythm riffs, chords, scales, riffs, and solos as you play along to the jam tracks, and the two newest releases target the Funk. |
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| New G2 Series Heads and Combos from Randall |
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| Building on the success of the original RG and RH series Randell amplifiers and designed with the intermediate to semi-professional guitarist in mind, Randall's G2 Series will feature modified circuit designs to include additional front panel controls and foot switching options. |
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| Spit-Fire 210 Combo By George Dennis |
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| The Spit-Fire 2-10 combo is the latest model from George Dennis of Prague to hit US shores. Shown for the first time at the recent NAMM show, the Spit-Fire features 2mm thick PC Boards with hand soldered point to point wiring and utilizes high quality components throughout including matched JJ Electronic tubes. |
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| New 10 Inch Guitar Speakers From Celestion |
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| Following up to their G12 Century Vintage guitar speaker, Celestion announced the G10 Vintage and G10A-15 guitar speakers. The new 10" guitar drivers are the latest additions to Celestion's range of guitar, bass, and PA speakers. |
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| New SB-1000 Power Supply from Furman Sound |
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| Furman Sound introduces a new rackmountable SB-1000 Uninterruptible Power Supply specifically designed with the needs of power hungry performing and recording musicians and studios in mind, alleviating fears about damaging sensitive digital gear or losing hours of studio work in the event of a power outage. |
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Did You Know? |
In Theory there are only 4 Diminished Chords
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Archived Files |
| Wednesday, July 29 | | · | Fender Starcaster Guitar Packages Now Available |
| Friday, July 17 | | · | Professor Bruce Jacob Adds A New Twist To The Electric Guitar |
| Tuesday, June 16 | | · | The Ventures Guitarist Bob Bogle Dies at 75 |
| · | Eddie Van Halen Takes Nike to Court |
| Friday, June 12 | | · | Sonuus G2M Universal Guitar to MIDI Converter |
| Tuesday, June 09 | | · | Fender Limited Edition 40th Anniversary Woodstock Strat |
| Thursday, June 04 | | · | Blues Legend Koko Taylor Dies at 80 |
| Tuesday, May 26 | | · | Guitars Not Guns to Raffle Two Great Guitars for Charity |
| Thursday, May 07 | | · | Sierra Guitars 2009 Lineup |
| · | 3 New Cedar Top Guitar Models From Sierra Guitars |
| Monday, May 04 | | · | Sierra Guitars Offer Rebates And Free Gear |
| Monday, April 27 | | · | Robby Krieger SG By Gibson |
| Monday, April 13 | | · | Jeff Beck inducted into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame |
| Tuesday, April 07 | | · | How to Install the Tremol-No(tm) System |
| · | Fix your tremolo problems with Tremol-No(tm) |
| Tuesday, March 31 | | · | The Rhythm Ring - Percussion at Your Fingertips |
| Monday, March 30 | | · | Ceriatone Amps - Build a Clone Amp |
| · | Jimi Hendrix Home Recording Found |
| Friday, March 20 | | · | Arbor Guitars Unleash Arbor in Action - Customer Photo Gallery |
| Monday, March 09 | | · | The Carl Martin Rock Bug - Guitar Amp Speaker Simulator |
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