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Which fingering to use for this section of a song
I can’t figure out the best fingering for this part of Sound of Silence. What should I do?
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What is the strum pattern in this song? [closed]
What is the strumming pattern in We Are Sick(Acoustic) by From Indian lakes
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Guitar + Harmonica Sync - Can we sync chords?
Disclaimer: I know nothing about Harmonica. I'm a guitar newbie trying to accompany my friend who is learning to play the Harmonica.
My friend has a "C Major" harmonica (if that's what it's ...
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My ring finger doesn't hover over the strings when using the pinky finger
I've been playing the electric guitar for approximately a year and a half and previously had some years playing acoustic. I was watching other people (including newbies) playing guitar and noticed ...
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Practice to minimize finger pressure on guitar strings?
For years I did not notice now I need to correct my bad habit of putting a lot pressure on guitar strings when I play. How to get rid of this bad habit.
I know I put my finger on a guitar string and ...
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My guitar sounds dull on a few notes
I just bought an electric acoustic guitar and found out that the sound was not bright on a few notes only.
I first noticed the difference on F# on D string. Then checking carefully showed that F F# ...
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Impulse response: does it represent a cabinet only or the whole chain used to record it?
I'm trying to grasp a concept of an impulse responses and getting a little bit confused. Most commercially available ones are meant to represent a cabinet with some microphones, but not the amp. And ...
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How do I play a crossed note before a hammer-on?
The tab below is from Stop this Train - John Mayer
How am I suppose to play the part circled in red?
Also what is the correct name for this notation?
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Multiple voices in Lilypond: stem directions, beams, and merged noteheads
With quite a bit of trial and error I figured out a way to write the following bar in Lilypond:
There are four voices, the top voice has upward stems, the two lower voices have downward stems, and ...
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In terms of sound, what are the advantages of a steel or nylon string?
I first picked up a guitar when I was about 7. Ever since I've been playing it, and I even performed a solo at a concert (Little Rover, by the stupendium!) I have 3 guitars, all acoustic. One hasn't ...
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How should I indicate variable capo position in a score?
I write songs for guitar and voice. Let's say for a particular song, I put the capo on the 2nd fret because this is what fits my vocal range for the melody. For another person, it could be the 3rd ...
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Drilling in guitar tops
If cheap acoustic guitars sound bad because the tops are thick, then wouldn't drilling a lot of very tiny holes in the top improve the tone and volume at all? I mean VERY TINY holes...
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DADDAD chord progression on guitar
I have a chord progression:
Verse:
Dm9 D9#5 Dm9 D9#5 Dm9 A7#5 D
Chorus:
Gm9 F6/9 G D9 D7 D
When going from the last D in the chorus to the first Dm9 in the verse, it sounds incongruous. Any ideas how ...
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Floyd Rose detuning after the first dive-bomb past dropD and can't recover E tuning on the adjustments without unlocking WHY
I have a Jackson js32 roads special. I get it in E tuning Lock it down and after the first dive bomb it knocks out of tune so far I can't get it back without unlocking it WHY someone please help
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Lilypond: barre marker for single note values
This question deals with barre chord notation for guitar using the TextSpanner command in Lilypond. This approach is also described in the Lilypond documentation. However, this approach only works if ...
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Uncommon Guitar Tab Notation
Don’t assume I know much about music, I’m just an amateur.
I’ve come across the notation below (AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long). I know how it sounds. I do not know how it’s called and how to ...
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How do I start learning to play ragtime on the guitar?
I would really like to learn how to play ragtime on the guitar. As a teenager I took guitar lessons. I learned to sight-read and basic chords, but not much beyond that. Years later, I am learning ...
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Does changing acoustic guitar strings require a re-setup?
I'm currently using D'Addario EZ920 (0.12-0.54) and I'm planning to change to D'Addario EJ16 (0.12-0.53) which is slightly lighter. I'm wondering if this will affect the intonation and needs ...
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Finding a Clean/Overdriven Fender Tone
I am trying to find this guitar tone, where it sounds solid and amped when clean, and, it seems like, when a player’s hitting harder gets very nice sounding overdrive.
Like the telecaster in this ...
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Buzzing amp when input is plugged
I have an orange micro dark that's unusable due to a strong buzz while playing clean, or comes in too early during the decay in a high gain setting.
Clue:
Notably, there's no buzz when the input is ...
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why does G major sound so good on the key of C minor and why does it transition so well into another verse?
I am writing my first song in the key of C minor and I thought that G major actually sounded even better than G minor specially for transitioning passages.
Also I noticed that if you play a barre ...
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Guitar for a patient with a spinal injury
I work as a physiotherapist at a rehabilitation hospital. I am looking to help a patient get back to playing guitar. He suffered a cervical spine injury and has no control over his fingers in both ...
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Is it possible to record direct from an amp to Audacity?
Recording my bass amp's output via an external microphone results in subpar sound quality. Is it possible to record direct to my computer (I use Audacity for recording audio) from my amp?
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Next step on music theory as a guitar player
I've been playing the guitar as a hobby since 2013 and have been gradually gaining familiarity with it by playing all kinds of songs.
At first, I simply tried to remember the fingerings by reading ...
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Funk Strumming While Fretting High Up the Neck Produces Odd Tones
I recently started to dabble into Funk Rhythm. I'm making decent progress, but I have noticed that when trying to play chords around the 12th fret using Funk strumming, the chord sounds 'off', like ...
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Where Should I start in regards to making music? [closed]
I have been studying music theory on and off for 2 years. I am 21 now and I have always had a love for music and was involved in school activities for music up until 6th grade. I unfortunately had to ...
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How do I play these chords on a piano? [closed]
These are Guitar Tabs. I wish for them to be converted to Piano notes. Thank you.
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What kind of effect is this? Sounds like a mix of wah-wah and phaser [closed]
This song has a part at 1:35 which has an effect I've heard in many bands (especially psych rock). To me it sounds like a mix of wah-wah and phaser, or some kind of a filter. I couldn't get the same ...
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How to feel the rhythm of a song
I'm absolute beginner in guitar, I've watched this video and I want to know what he meant by "to feel the rhythm”. Is it about finding strumming pattern of a song?
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How do you tune a guitar to open D without a string breaking?
I was tuning my guitar to open D, because people had been nagging me about it, saying how it's just better.
Anyway, I was tuning, turning the knobs to what sounded right, so I started playing and then,...
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What determines a Note?
In the context of guitar for example:
if I press down on string 6 fret 3 and play that string, that note is a G.
if I play the open string 3 that note is a G
if I press down on string 1 fret 3 and ...
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Roadmap - Guitar [closed]
I have been playing guitar (acoustic) for a long time.
I have the basics of musical theory. And I have good guitar skills.
I studied on my own, so I didn't have a clear learning structure. Now faced ...
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Six string bass and Guitar Technique
I know some stuff on guitar. By stuff, I mean scales/chords etc...
I would like to have some knowledge for the bass. Maybe for home recording, enriching my sounds.
The bass is a four stringed ...
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Any tips on making pentatonic climbing more fluid (electric guitar)
I've been practicing pentatonic scales on my electric guitar and sometimes it'll be very fluid and smooth sounding and other times it'll be very choppy and static. Is making the climb-up and climb-...
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What is a tremolo in terms of guitar effects?
The task is to create a presentation on computer effects and tremolo is listed as on of them
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What's the name of the chord when I do the Am shape but with the 2nd and 3rd finger on the 4th and the first on the 3rd fret [closed]
What's the name of the Chord that I play when I do the Am shape but with the 2nd and 3rd finger on the 4th and the first on the 3rd fret?
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What technique was most likely used when demonstrating how a mariachi group played rapidly?
Sometime when I was around nine years old, my music teacher brought in an audio-visual aid into our classroom and showed us a half-hour film documentary about what made up a mariachi band. I=The ...
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On-beats vs off-beats in guitar
Below is my definition of on-beats and off-beats in the context of guitar playing.
On-Beat
In a 4/4 time signature, beats 1,2,3,4 are on-beats.
If we were to use the 1 E & A counting system to ...
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Static noise from amplifier and it increases when i touch guitar strings
https://streamable.com/76kpb1
I made a video of the issue i am facing, it's my first electric guitar so idk what's the issue
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Guitar versus electronic keyboard workstation [closed]
Between a guitar and an electronic keyboard workstation, which one takes less time and/or effort to become proficient with just for singing privately in my home with my family?
(for an absolute ...
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where doesthe F come from in this lick? [closed]
So, I've got this lick:
Most of the notes fall on the C major pentatonic, but there's an F note that I don't know where it's coming from.
As fingered on the tab, it fits even this pattern (d major ...
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What can a modern DAW do with analog sounds?
It's been several years since I last found much time to indulge my music hobby but I'm starting to think about it a lot lately so I want to get back up to speed a bit, at least conceptually.
When I ...
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How to avoid certain notes ringing out when played with distortion
When I play a certain note like the 9th fret on the G string or the 8th fret on the B string (it is more prominent with higher notes) it seems to ring out almost like reverb but I have no reverb on my ...
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What is the musical function of broken chords?
I'm new to musical theory and interested in playing guitar. It seems to me that the broken chords are very often used in the music sheets arranged for guitar. I wonder if they are also usually used in ...
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Which guitar to buy considering the scenario? [closed]
I have been playing guitar for almost 4 years now, and have only played the guitar which I have, haven't got to have chance on multiple guitar, so don't have experience on different models. I have a ...
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How to read movable scale chart for A minor pentatonic?
I bought a guitar chart and it has this figure for moveable minor pentatonic scale:
I know the number 1 box pattern of the minor pentatonic scale (Justin guitar course). I play it starting on the 5th ...
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How is a small MIDI keyboard mapped to a bass guitar strings?
Warning: total noob here.
Not sure if this is a lack of software or music knowledge (probably both). I started using a DAW (Cakewalk) and bought a very basic midi keyboard (Akai mini) to start making ...
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5th Fret Method of standard guitar tuning
I usually use some some of tuner to tune my guitar, but occasionally I will try to use the 5th fret method. In attempting to do so today, something puzzled me about the string setup on the guitar.
The ...
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How to replace amp of electric guitar with IPad
I just wanna start learning the electric guitar (EG) as my first musical instrument and I have no knowledge about music. As I understood, I should buy an amplifier to play EG. I am wondering if it is ...
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Do I apply a sharp to all the same notes? [duplicate]
I play guitar and for one of my songs, the sheet music shows sharps for only higher notes and not the lower notes. Do I apply the sharps to the lower notes? For example, G on string 1 is a sharp but ...
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