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	<title>Triviality &#187; Guitar</title>
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		<title>How To Play Blues Guitar</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 02:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You undoubtedly have heard someone play the blues. Its got a sound unique to its self. As a musician I love getting in the groove and jamming, by myself but its even better with my friends. To play impromptu, a guitarist has be comfortable with what he or she is doing. If you’re comfortable you’re more likely to bust out those solos when the time comes. To get comfortable you need practice. If you’re looking for blues guitar lessons this is the place.</p>
<p>Learning blues guitar takes time, or any instrument for that matter. But a lot of people don&#8217;t have &#8220;extra&#8221; time laying around. Wouldn&#8217;t it be great if lessons from an instructor fit into your schedule? Griff Hamlin, as seen in the photo, has created a DVD set with hours of professional, high quality video, tailored into 20 minute practice sessions. The videos are divided up by chapter and cover every single note in the book. There are even some extra videos for some great fun licks and tricks.</p>
<p>The main book provides all of the scales, techniques, <br />
theory, and tricks that you&#8217;ll need. It follows a <br />
simple and logical progression. Each chapter builds on <br />
the one before it. At the end of each chapter, you&#8217;ll <br />
be told precisely what you need to be able to do before <br />
jumping on to the next chapter. You can&#8217;t fail with this. </p>
<p>The finest part, however, is the audio examples and jam <br />
tracks. Every audio example comes with a full speed <br />
and slow speed version, so you can play along easily <br />
at first, and pick up the pace as you improve. </p>
<p>There are also 4 complete solos that really sound like <br />
they are from your favorite blues songs. You could <br />
memorize them and totally  use them at your next blues <br />
jam or gig. They demonstrate all of the techniques <br />
throughout the book, and give a very good &#8220;real world&#8221; <br />
example of the techniques and methodology. </p>
<p>Also, there are 6 jam tracks that come with the <br />
DVD set, so once you get going you can just play <br />
along with the band. And the tracks are really good <br />
quality, just like you&#8217;re jamming with a real band. <br />
It&#8217;s a lot of fun. </p>
<p>As a bonus Griff has included an excellent book jam-packed with turnaround and ending licks. Some of them are <br />
pretty straight forward blues, but a couple of them <br />
are real head-turners. </p>
<p>As you can tell, I&#8217;m really impressed with this <br />
package as a whole. The testimonials on the website <br />
prove that I&#8217;m not alone. This is a very well planned, tested, and skillfully made system. </p>
<p>Don&#8217;t just take my word for it though, take a look for yourself at:</p>
<p><a href='http://www.squidoo.com/bluesguitarinstruction' target='_blank'>Blues Guitar Instructions</a></p>
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		<title>Chord Progressions</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 22:38:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ryanc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chord Progressions are the backbone of the song. They are basically a serious of chords played in the same key that make up the song. With the chord progressions as the backbone it sets the rules as to what notes can be played. It determines where the harmonies of the song will be played, and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href='http://www.readguitartabs.com' target='_blank'>Chord Progressions</a> are the backbone of the song.  They are basically a serious of chords played in the same key that make up the song.  With the chord progressions as the backbone it sets the rules as to what notes can be played.  It determines where the harmonies of the song will be played, and where the melody will be able to go.  If the wrong note is played you will be able to pick it out and it will sound completely out of place.  The purpose of the chord progression is also to set the tone for the piece of music.</p>
<p><a href='http://www.readguitartabs.com' target='_blank'>Guitar chord progressions</a> are built upon a note from a musical scale.  If you have a 7 note scale, that allows for a chord progression of 7 chords.  Say the first note is an A in that scale, you would first play an A chord.  Perhaps it is followed by the note of C, in which case you would then play a C chord.  With this type of musical system there is no limit to the tones and chord progressions that you can create with this knowledge.</p>
<p>An example of some chord progressions would be:  from the key of C: C, Am, Dm, G; from the key of A: A, D, E, A.<br />
As you develop your ear for music, and this is not necessary if you are a beginner but it is some food for thought, you will begin to be able to recognize chord progressions.  Progressions are normally referred to by a system of numbers that represents each chord’s place within its key.  Previously I mentioned how we’ve seen the scale comes out with seven chords.  The chords in this progression are numbered from one to seven represented by roman numerals.  Upper case roman numerals are used for Majors, and lower case numerals are used for Minors .<br />
Any amount of chords, even repeating, can be picked out of a key and be used to create a song.  As an example, the C Major scale is: I, ii, iii, IV, V, vi, vii, i.  These numerals represent the chords C, D, E, F, G, A, B, and C.  Let’s say you pick out four chords for a song, such as I, IV, ii, vi.  The chords you will then be playing are C, F, Dm, and Am.  With this system of music if you wanted to change the key you would change the chords you would play.  They would sound exactly same as before, but they would just be in a different pitch and in one of the eleven other keys.  This would allow someone with a different vocal ability to sing the same song, but in a key that fits their voice most properly.</p>
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		<title>MGMT Kids Acoustic Version</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 10:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Barnes</dc:creator>
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