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How to Tune a Guitar Tuning the guitar is the first thing you need to master on your way to rock stardom. Here are some simple instructions that explain the most commonly used guitar tuning in the world. Standard Guitar Tuning: EADgbe When looking straight down at your guitar the open strings from the thickest to the thinnest are as follows: Strings Notes E Thickest String A D g b e Thinnest String Step 1: The 6th String – E (thickest) Tune the bottom E String, as accurately as you can. If you don’t have a tuner you can use our handy guitar tuning app .You can also use other reference tones such as a Piano or any other musical instrument that is handy. What’s important is that you have a reference tone. Tip: Fake It Till You Make It Did you get lost alone in the forest with just your guitar and can’t find a reference tone anywhere? Assuming you don’t have any other musicians playing with you, you can always just tune that Fat E String as best you can a
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SO HOW TO FORM CHORDS FROM THE SCALES HOW TO CONVERT THEM,,HERE IS GUIDE ENJOY, Forming Chords From Scales Chords typically occur together in families. There are certain groups of chords that when used together, often sound good. The most common way of forming families of chords that sound good together is to form a set of chords from a scale. When you do this, you will have a number of chords that all belong to the same key. In this article, I’ll show you through how to form a family of chords from a scale. By understanding this, you will understand why certain chords work well together in a given key and be able to start to see these families of related chords being used in the music you learn. Lets start by forming triads (three note chords) from a major scale. To make things easy lets use C Major as our scale here. The notes of the C Major scale are as follows: C D E F G A B C Each of the notes of this scale can be used to build a chord on. In order to do this
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MAJOR SCALES ON GUITAR
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GUITAR SCALE CHART
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Guitar Scale W elcome to the guitar scales section of GuitarOrb.com. Here I will show you through some of the most common scales used on the guitar in soloing and improvisation, talk a bit about their use and illustrate some of the most common positions to play these scales. I’ll then also discuss how to practice these scales as well as some basic theory concepts that are useful to understand in relation to scales. The 6 Most Commonly Used Guitar Scales Scale 1: The Minor Pentatonic Scale A pentatonic scale is a scale that has 5 notes per octave. The minor pentatonic scale is typically the first scale guitarists learn to solo with and is very commonly used to form solos in rock, blues, and other popular styles. The two main positions this scale is played in are: The scale is quick to learn and easy to learn to improvise and phrase with. Once you have mastered the basics of using the scale over a minor chord progression, there is also some more advanced uses based on playing
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Effects unit of guitar(for modification of guitar sound to various varieties)        A pedalboard allows a performer to create a ready-to-use chain of multiple pedals. Signal chain order: tuner , compressor , octave generator , wah-wah pedal , overdrive , distortion , fuzz , EQ and tremolo . An effects unit or pedal is an electronic device that alters how a musical instrument or other audio source sounds. Some effects subtly "color" a sound while others transform it dramatically. Musicians use effects units during live performances or in the studio , typically with electric guitar , electronic keyboard , electric piano or electric bass . While most frequently used with electric or electronic instruments, effects can also be used with acoustic instruments, drums and vocals. [1] [2] Examples of common effects units include wah-wah pedals , fuzzboxes and reverb units. [3] Effects are built into amplifiers , housed in table top units , " sto