Where the folkies play! A Traditional Music Library of folk music, tune-books, songbooks and sheet music. The Bluegrass Guitar Home Page. Guitar for Beginners and Beyond - Over 100,000 Members - Devoted to the basics of music and the guitar. 300,000+ Guitar Tabs, Bass Tabs, Chords and Guitar Pro Tabs! The Chord Guide: Pt I – Chord Progressions. Chord progressions are the canvas on which musicians paint their masterpieces, and it’s a canvas which is a piece of art in itself.
A chord progression can be subtle and in the background or it can be blatant and up front; it can be simple and catchy, or it can be technical and complex, it can stay in one key or it can change like the seasons. In any of these cases a chord progression is what drives the song as it literally shapes the music that accompanies it. Chord progressions are like a cozy home where melody and rhythm can kick their feet up. All the songwriting giants, like John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Bob Dylan, to name a few, have/had a tremendous knowledge of the art of the chord progression. I’m not going to promise you tremendous knowledge, but I will offer you a good head start in the way of making your own music – in an easily digestible chunk to boot.
New standard tuning. All-fifths tuning is typically used for mandolins, cellos, violas, and violins.
On a guitar, tuning the strings in fifths would mean the first string would be a high B, something that was was impractical until recently. [citation needed] The NST provides a good approximation to all-fifths tuning. Like other regular tunings, NST allows chord fingerings to be shifted from one set of strings to another. NST's C-G range is wider, both lower and higher, than the E-E range of standard tuning in which the strings are tuned to the open notes E-A-D-G-B-E. The greater range allows NST-guitars to play repertoire that would be impractical, if not impossible, on a standard-tuned guitar.