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Pickup Music’s LA-based session ace Jamey Arent is your host for a lesson that’s not only a great introduction to the fundamentals of funk guitar, but could be the inspiration you need to take your fu ...

They are so commonplace that we take the theory behind them for granted. Here are five 7th chords, the theory underpinning ...

It's written in two sections: the Toccata (meaning "to touch") - is a sort of free-form introduction, involving lots of fast scales and arpeggios (broken chords); the second part - the Fugue - is ...

A cadence is formed by two chords at the end of a passage of music. Sometimes the final cadence of a piece in a minor key ends with a major chord instead of the expected minor. This effect is ...

Consider that some key words on both sides of the East-West divide have no ... In fact, people wondered what kind of new guitar the Beatles had invented. “Love to You” and “Tomorrow Never Knows” are ...

The preeminent magazine about “axes” has finally gotten the axe. Guitar Player will halt publication after almost 58 years, putting out one last issue on Oct. 15, with an interview with Led ...

Moving chord shapes around the fretboard is the key to achieving total creative freedom in your riffs and songs. It doesn’t matter what kind of music you’re into - this special kind of moveable shape ...

Michelle Obama reversed a controversial narrative in her crowd-pleasing speech Tuesday night, calling Donald Trump a beneficiary of “the affirmative action of generational wealth.” The former ...

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Played live, though, their songs came alive. Kicking off with Art Official Age’s Clouds - and with Lianne La Havas joining him on lead vocals - Prince then left his keyboard, picked up his guitar and ...

We list the best PDF merger tools, to make it simple and easy to combine documents together into one file. We put the top tools to the test to see which makes for the best workflow. The easiest ...