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Devon Musicians Blog. Music Tutorials. Great music sites. Important and Useful Music Sites. SoundCloud - Your Sound, At The Heart. Free Audio Editor and Recorder. Guitar Tuner @ Chordbook.Com. The guitar tuner can be put in repeat mode (just click on or off the (R) buttons. So you can here the tunings and tune to them. This page also shows you how to make some common alternative tunings to your guitar. Standard guitar tuning Traditionally used to create a Celtic or ethnic sound, this tuning has been used by many guitarists including Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin. Checkout guitarist Pierre Bensusan who has spent years perfecting DADGAD tuning for solo acoustic guitar Open C tuning - with the 6th string dropped down to C this gives a big dynamic range to your guitar sound Drop D tuning - dropping the 6th string down to D is a easy way of giving adding an extra dimension to the bass strings where you can easily make octaves Open G tuning is a great tuning for blues guitar work.

D minor tuning is a rich minor tuning Open D tuning is a great tuning for blues or slide work This is a variation of a tuning used by guitarist and songwriter John Martyn (he actually uses CFCCGD). Guitar Scales @ Chordbook.Com. This page shows you some common scales on the guitar. You can use the repeat and speed buttons to practice along. blues BLUES The basis of most popular music! A kind of variation of the pentatonic in combination with the chromatic scale, it fits well over basic songs that do not modulate (change key), if the song changes key you could use a chromatic/ whole time shift and fit another blues scale into the new home! Chromatic CHROMATIC Fantastic for finger work and again getting you to new keys, chords quickly.

Diminished 7ths DIMINISHED 7THS A 4 note version of the major arpeggio. Dominant 7ths DOMINANT 7THS As these scales start on the 7th degree of the scale usually, you can use them to shift key or get you into a new harmony fast, really good when a track shifts up a semitone or tone. harmonic minor major MAJOR SCALE An essential! Major arpeggio melodic minor (ascending) melodic minor (descending) minor MINOR SCALE An essential!

Minor arpeggio pentatonic (major) pentatonic (minor) whole tone.