Rhythm Guitar Lessons

Barre Chords

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Learn the Trick to Playing Every Chord with Barre Chords
To really progress as a guitarist, a technique known as barre chords allows you to play dozens of chords using simple moveable shapes. Learning barre chords will give you the power to play nearly every song that was ever written! That’s right, barre chords are very [...]

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Easily Learn Every Chord – Caged Chords

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The Guitar Secret that all the Pros Use to Remember Every Chord
You’re about to learn a simple secret that will unlock the whole guitar fingerboard. It’s rumored that Jimi Hendrix used this concept to get complete fingerboard knowledge. I know that once I learned the following technique my guitar playing knowledge improved out of sight. [...]

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Picking Chords

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Add Great Interest to your Rhythm Playing by Picking Chords
Great guitarists add texture to their playing with both left and right hand techniques. We’ve already learned how to color your rhythm playing with variations of your strumming technique. Picking techniques can also help you create diverse sounds by isolating notes. Remember how playing arpeggios helped [...]

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Rhythm Guitar Play-alongs

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Your First Rhythm Jam Session
In this section of Pro Guitar Tips, you get to jam along with me and a rocking band! Recorded live at Park Avenue studios, I’ve provided four different style play-along tracks, and they rock. Play-along tracks are the best way to practice as you test your skills in a real life [...]

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Power Chords, Palm Muting and Drop D Tuning

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Unlock the Secret to Rock Rhythm through Playing Power Chords
Power chords are a real focus of rock, blues, and pop music. They’re used to create solid rhythm guitar parts, and are often used in riffs. Power chords sound great on an electric guitar with some distortion. The best thing is they’re SUPER EASY! I guarantee [...]

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Add New Colour with Suspended Chords

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Add Colour to your Rhythm Parts with Suspended Chords
Sus2 chords have been used by many of the greats.
Listen to Jimi Hendrix (Little Wing), The Police (Message in a Bottle), Prince (Purple Rain) and many more.
Explanation of sus2
D sus2 chord is a chord where the 3 rd is replaced with the major 2 nd .   The [...]

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Learn the Secret to Great Rhythm

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Learn the Secret to Great Rhythm and Strum like your Favourite Player
Right, now that you’ve got some great chord knowledge, it’s time to get your right hand moving! The bulk of all the music you’ll play on the guitar will revolve around playing rhythm guitar. If you’re a great rhythm player, you’ll soon be in [...]

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How to use a Capo to Play any Song

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How to use a Capo to make Playing any Song Easy
A capo is a guitar accessory used to move the position of the nut.   They come in various shapes and sizes, but all do the same thing.   I recommend the Kyser type as shown on below, because they’re easier to take on and off the [...]

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Learning Open 7th Chords

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Expand Your Knowledge by Learning Open 7th Chords
As we learned previously, major chords are built on the basic scale note numbers 1, 3, and 5. If we add one or two extra scale notes it creates a chord with an extension. The most common extension is to add the flat or dominant 7. This creates [...]

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Open Minor Chords Guide

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Massively Expand Your Song Choices with Open Minor Chords!
Slight variations to the 5 basic open position major chords that you’ve learned can create a whole new palatte of sounds, and give you a host of new songs to play. If we take the basic Major shapes, we can change them slightly to become open position [...]

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