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Being able to improvise on guitar is one of the most enjoyable aspects of playing music. To just sit down and play! No sheet music! No struggling! No thinking!
Wait… No thinking? Yep, that’s right. When you see an guitar player improvising who’s really in the groove, they’re not thinking. They’re letting the music flow through them. (Cue mystical hoo-ha music…)
And you too can get there by jumping in and getting your guitar improvisation fundamentals together. Continue reading
In Beginning Chord Theory For Guitarists I showed you how to construct basic three note chords, get them on the fretboard, and understand their relationship to one another.
In this post we’ll talk about how to read extended chord symbols, meaning those 7’s, 9’s, 11’s, and 13’s you’ve probably run across. These chords add a lot more depth and complexity to your chord progressions than regular 3 note (triad) chords. Continue reading
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