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How do I notate a passage in acoustic guitar, in order to make the lowest note ring?
An awful lot of acoustic guitar music is not written as accurately as would be expected. But notes which are obviously the bass note which would ring through the bar would be seen as such, even if not ...
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How do I notate a passage in acoustic guitar, in order to make the lowest note ring?
In fact I would rather notate this as such:
And while doing this
is less effort to do, it conveys a different meaning. As Tim said, a professional guitarist might understand what was meant, and play ...
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How do you do percussive strumming with melody lines on guitar?
Here are the techniques he's using:
His strumming pattern is pretty basic, I'd notate it as sixteenth notes, each beat is down-up-down-up. He often misses the strings on the upstrokes, so it's an ...
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Why does most "Country" Music use mostly major and minor plain simple chords?
Most of what people might consider country music today is not actually country music in it's purest form and bears almost no sonic resemblance to its roots. Certain sub-styles of country music such as ...
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Singing while playing a complex or off-beat guitar melody
This is a classic example of “pat your head and rub your stomach in a circular motion at the same time”, or doing two independent things that are not necessarily that difficult on their own ...
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Different timbre per voice
If you're using two voices on one staff, you can exclusively palm mute one voice and not the other.
For example, on the attached screenshot:
I selected voice 1
I highlighted the whole bar
I selected &...
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