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Playing All Guitar Notes With a MIDI File
I'm trying to do this:
1. I open FL Studio to play all 88 keys of a piano.
2. FL Studio's Piano Roll begins with C0 which is two octave below C1 of a real piano.
3. So you have to go from C2 up to C9 ...
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Learning notes on the fretboard
I was reading this book on music theory, i just want to confirm with everybody here if my understandinng is correct. See screenshot below
On the B string 1st fret and 3rd and also on the E string 1st ...
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Why do these chords not have these repeated notes?
So I constructed a B-chord using the intervals for a major, M3 and m3 in that order which gave me B-D#-F# from the CDEFGABC order I saw. Then I started to construct a B triad which gave me those ...
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How does longer guitar necks with more frets affect the sound?
I was thinking about an upgrade of my 24-fret RG guitar. Even though it's a «shredding» piece of instrument, I wanted to set up low-output pups on it, but then… some guy told me that this long neck ...
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Memorizing fret board intervals
Fret board intervals; When playing and looking at the guitar fretboard, is it best to mentally use pictorial patterns,
(chords, scales, modes, arpeggios) to help in the (my) solo direction, or ...
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What is the Difference between Maple and Rosewood Fretboards
Is there a difference that's based on feel or sound - why are they the two most widely used choices?
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Play a scale across the whole neck of the guitar
I have learned all the boxes, of let's say, the major scale.
How do i play this across the whole fretboard?
When people solo, they play a scale across the neck. So how i do this?
Everyone that i know ...
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know by heart difficult chords on guitar
After years of playing guitar by self study i know all the chords but i still strugle to find my way freely on the guitar especially with inversions and other unique chords. Is this a matter of ...
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How do I know which position to use when I'm playing by ear
I come from a piano background ( and I know enough theory to read intermediate piano sheet music) and I want to learn fingerstyle guitar. but It's so difficult because there is more than one way to ...
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How do you transform tune or hum in your mind to actual music on guitar
Whenever I heard solos ,especially phrase solos that goes along with some phrase of the song, I wonder how you guys(experienced and professional musician).
Imagine a certain tune or "hum" and ...
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B string buzzing during A chord
I'm relatively new to guitar and have been learning on an electric (SG). I often practice acoustically (without an amp), and I'm having some trouble with the open A major chord.
My position for the A ...
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Fingers touch adjacent strings while playing chords
I started learning guitar from March '17. And I have just started learning chords. And I am facing a lot of difficulties.
The most important of them is that, irrespective of how I place my
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Is it possible to change the position of the frets of an electric guitar?
Is it possible, and how would I go about changing the position of the frets of an electric guitar, for example making some frets a quarter tone sharp or flat? As another more difficult example, would ...
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Scale length with incorrect bridge position
What would be the issue/effect of having the bridge too far away from the nut on a large fretboard with standard fret sizes? For example, a 24 fret board with 25.5 inch scale fret spacings, but a ...
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Two equal E notes on guitar
I was having a thought at why does E on 1st open string and E on the 2nd string, 5th fret have a different timbre or colour if you like? While them both being a single E in one octave while ...
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