Questions tagged [guitar]
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Writing a Bridge for a Song
I am considering a bridge in a song I am writing in the key of C. Is it customary to change keys by going up a whole step or half step?
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Guitar Cabinet volume low
I have just bought a guitar Cabinet (Harley Benton G112) but when I connect anything to it, the volume is very low.
I have tried the Phones out of my Boss Katana 50, with all volume up — it's hearable ...
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How to derive triads from more complex chords
I recently came into possession of a chord diagram book for guitar.
It explains 7/9/11/13 chords, sus, add, and everything in between, seemingly, for all 12 notes.
What I don't see explained in this ...
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In a classical guitar score, when a section plays very low notes, is it better to use 8vb, G clef with 8vb or the F clef?
My music knowledge background
I never studied music in a music school, but I've composed music for some years and know some theory that I've picked up and read about over the years. I do not have much ...
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Why doesn't the G chord resolve as definitively into C as E7 into Am?
I'm a beginner guitarist.
On the piano it sounds fine: G to C. Perfect!
On the guitar it sounds ... meh ... blah ...
In a minor scale, however, such as A minor, the dominant (E7) resolves definitively,...
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What do the chord symbols on each bar mean?
I see chord symbols on each bar, and I assume they represent the notes in the bar.
But many times not all the notes are present, and sometimes a bar with only 1 note has a chord symbol.
If they are a ...
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Is it true that D A D F A D is the bluesiest guitar tuning? [closed]
Is D A D F A D the bluesiest guitar tuning ? If not, what tuning is ?
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Why are all legato practices about 3 notes per string?
Is it normal if I practice legato on 5 positions major, minor scale?
The thing I notice practicing legato with 5 positions scale is harder to keep tracking on metronome, since some string only has two ...
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What guitar chord is made up of the open notes A D G B?
Guitar chord is cited as a chord in Kenny Wayne Sheppard's Born With a Broken Heart.
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Guitar triplet legato: should i lift all fingers while moving to the next string?
I see many legato practices didn't mention about it.
Each time i play 3 notes in one string, i tend to lift all 3 fingers and pick the next string first note (2 left fingers are on the air).
I notice ...
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I have a small hand and am an adult. Would 1/2 or 3/4 classical guitar be ok?
I have a small hand, and classical pieces sometimes require wide stretches.
I am considering buying smaller guitar, but wouldn't it compromise playing quality?
If not, is an adult using 1/2 or 3/4, or ...
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Standard notation for left hand bars/barres on guitar when playing natural harmonics in a single fret and using a single left hand finger
I'm a self taught guitarrist and hobby musician who composes original music and who creates transcriptions/arrangements of music from other artists for classical guitar.
I've recently learned about ...
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Why do notes played on bass strings on the highest frets sound bad?
I notice that on bass guitars or low tuned guitars, the notes played on the lowest strings very high on the fretboard sound bad. This can be heard, e.g., in this video at 1:01–1:10:
It is well known ...
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How to use modes to create chords
OK I know major and minor modes will produce different chords but what about other modes? How to derive chords from dorian, phrygian? Lydian? Mixolydian? Locrian?
Edit: The chord order in A minor is i ...
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How to record guitar into FL Studio 21
I have an audio interface hooked up to studio monitors and I have set everything up (Real life amplifier with 1/4" output wired to the 1/4" audio interface input). I see an output as a ...
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does every melody fit into 3-note-scales?
Currently I am learning how to use ears for transcribing melodies.
My previous thought was that every melody followed scales of some sorts, so I learned 3-notes-per-strings scales.
But today I have ...
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What is the name of this instrument that sounds like a pedal steel guitar? [closed]
What is the name of this instrument?
Here video I'm thinking that the sounds produced by that instrument are similar to the sounds of a pedal steel guitar, because when I see the newer versions of the ...
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Help identify brand of guitar [closed]
I recently got a guitar from my dad's friend for my birthday. He didn't play with it at all and gifted it to me. It's a really nice guitar, but I can't identify the brand of the guitar. The only clue ...
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How to clean this guitar hardware?
I neglected my guitar a little bit in the last years. Didn't do anything crazy with them; it just hung on the wall and when I played it I didn't really clean it.
I know how to clean and maintain the ...
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Can IR balanced output from Engl ironball e606se plug directly to a monitor speaker
I am buying a guitar amp and thinking about engl ironball e606se.
I have a limited space for my apartment, so I prefer a small speaker than 1x12 cab.
However, I don’t know that is it ok to use ir ...
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How should I start studying jazz standards? [closed]
I am beginning to learn guitar itself.
I can read music sheet, have studied music theory well enough to understand chord progressions.
But I have not played much other than Bach's Bourree and some ...
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Why does a guitar scale shape have more than 7 notes?
As the title suggests, I wonder the number of notes in a scale shape on guitar.
Let's take the G major scale in 2 octaves: G A B C D E F# G A B C D E F# G, there are 15 notes. I found that in many ...
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What does a lower-case "a" next to the note head mean in guitar tablature?
What do lowercase letter "a"s mean in guitar tabs?
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Am I Doing It Wrong? Why Can't I Use Multiple 5-Line Staves to Represent Guitar's Open Strings?
As a rock songwriter with interest in theory, I sometimes score my music to engage with it differently. I’d open MuseScore, create 3 treble clef staves—one for the voice and two for the guitars—and a ...
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Microphone getting feedback random levels from my amp
I bought this microphone so to eliminate wind sounds for singing, where I play acoustic guitar live in a restaurant, and with my electroacoustic guitar Ibañez model GA5TCE. I am able to play, sing, ...
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How do major 7th chords (no inversion) sound consonant?
A note and its flat or sharp do not sound good played together. The sound is as dissonant as it gets.
How is it that placing a 3rd and 5th between a note and its major 7th (flat of its octave), then ...
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How much does a used Gibson Flying V guitar( not strung) all the way, cost? [closed]
I was given a Gibson Flying V acoustic guitar made in India or Japan i forget which one, but it was from a family member of a deceased neighbor, but it is not all the way strung. How much does this ...
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fingering for guitar arpeggio
I'm looking at Guitar Arpeggio Studies On Jazz Standards by Mimi Fox.
I'd like advice on left hand fingering on even this simplest exercise.
In the first bar, should we use ring finger for the D and ...
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Mapping pads to broken guitar chords with velocity sensitivity for live performance
I am a complete rookie to music theory nor do I know how to play a keyboard or guitar. I like to sing and perform therefore I need help to execute this, if at all it is possible:
Something along these ...
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3rds and 6ths on guitar
I've been working on 3rds and 6ths and struggled at first getting my head around the 6ths since they are, as played on guitar, really inverted 3rds.
Harmonizing in 3rds follows the diatonic chords, i....
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On a slide guitar, how much is string tension important?
I'm re-visiting slide guitar playing, and need to set up a guitar for that purpose. It's going to be quite different from my usual .008" set, and the action will obviously be much higher, so much ...
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Index finger too pointy for guitar?
I recently got a guitar and can't seem to hold down a string without touching another. With the shape of my finger, it doesn't feel possible. Will my nail recede as I practice or am I doomed?
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How important is the material a guitar slide is made from?
Most slides seem to be glass. What difference does the material itself make to anything, if any? Copper, stainless steel, brass - or are any other better materials used? For what reasons?
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Guitar foot tapping goes haywire when I accent beats
I'm learning to tap my foot to the pulse but my foot does a jerk when I accent a beat while strumming. Is this okay or should I try to keep my foot as steady as possible and how can I do it?
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Meaning of :/: with a 2 above
I don't fully understand this symbol. I know it means to repeat the bar, but how many times? Normally I'm used to the one slash and two dots in a bar, which I know means to repeat.
Can anyone help ...
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Electro harmonix Mel 9
I love this pedal but I do have a few issues that would make it hard to use live. When you hit the button and disengage immediately cuts the effect, there's no bleed that's awkward. I'll probably ...
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Sharp 4th sounds good in major scale lick/progression?
As part of my practice session today, I was exploring using CAGED chord shapes up and down the neck while incorporating licks in order to make melodic passages. While playing in A major, I improvised ...
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Program similar to getharmony.net [closed]
getharmony.net was a very interesting web page where you could get the notes of a song with guitar through a spectogram and make a tab to interpret it. Unfortunately it is down, but I would like to ...
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Need help to understand this chord progression
This song should be in a-minor but I'm not sure about key changes in a following passage (starting from f#m7b5 chord). Any help would be appreciated, thanks!
am7 / em7 / am7 / em7 / f#m7b5 / B /
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Guitars hum consistently, even while touching strings
Ibanez Gio GRG220PA and Fender Starcaster constantly hum when plugged into either my amp or audio interface. The hum doesn't get better or worse when I touch the strings, unlike what's often reported ...
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Is it common that a 7th chord or 9th chord played missing root note and 3rd note?
Is it common that a 7th chord or 9th chord played with missing root note and 3rd note? If not
for 7th chords, is it the case for 9th chords?
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Is it neccessarry to shave the braces to get more volume w/ Lighter Strings?
I recently converted one of my Acoustic Guitars to get the full response w/ Magma Ultra-Light Gauge Acoustic Strings (9-46) & only those Strings by gently shaving down the braces (the ones inside ...
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How can my ear training be made better? (For Guitarist)
I was looking for the lead (the music that starts the song) in the Hotel California Song. But I am having trouble locating the tab. Even after listening more than 50 times, I still cannot locate the ...
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Compatibility between guitar with 9v pre amp and Phantom Power
Just been doing some recording using a condenser mic and an acoustic guitar. Condenser mic needs phantom power from the recorder (Boss 1200), but with that turned on, the input for the guitar will ...
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For guitar sight reading, how do you not confuse between 3rd and 4th string?
I am currently working on sight reading as a beginner guitar player.
I keep placing fingers wrongly between 3rd and 4th strings.
I try to keep my fingers near to the fretboard, have a steady hand.
But ...
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Is it possible to play in D-tuning (guitar) on keyboards?
On a guitar it's possible to play in different tunings and depending on this the positioning of fingers and the sounding will vary, but is the same possible on keyboards, I as a keyboard player can't ...
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Notes tied to rests?
This is the end of Leo Brouwer's study 4 from the "Estudios Sencillos":
Some notes here are tied to rests, or so it seems. What did Brouwer want the performer to do?
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Adding a fourth chord in a 2-5-1 chord progression
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I understand this might be a rather vague question - and I apologize if it is too much so - but I am novice music theorist and think this question does have merit to it.
I am playing a 2-5-...
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Why do some of the chord choices in measures 18 through 20 of "Study #1 William Leavitt - Melodic Rhythms For Guitar" sound... "wrong"?
prior research: I was given this link by my guitar teacher. When I first raised the issue that this sounded funny I was told it was fine, and "there's no 'wrong' in music." But this still ...
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Pinched/Palm Harmonics
After playing with pinched harmonics for ages, I recently, completely by accident, found palm harmonics.
Pinched uses the edge of the thumb to produce the node, while palm uses the palm for the same ...
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