" and another one called "The Milk of Human Tenderness," which is very, very interesting; it has lyrical passages that are interrupted by other “thoughts” such as oblique chords and curious counterpointings of voice and strings. And then the song...
On that point, let's try a simple chord change exercise between A major and D major, or the I and IV chords in the key of A major. Over A major, we can reference the three or four string shapes as we covered, over the open A string bass. For D major, I'm using the open D...
Depending on your current skill level, some of the chords may seem unplayable. That’s okay – learn as many of them as you can and don’t worry if you can’t learn all of them. The goal here is to expand your chord knowledge from the basic open and barre chords everybody learns a...
But it does at least serve as a reminder of what has changed since His ‘n’ Hers. Behind Jarvis, the rest of the band have also made a fundamental shift. Underwear sounds for the world like an epic rock ballad, complete with power rock chords, a descending piano line motif and a ...
Nylon string guitars are used for classical music and traditional Spanish flamenco music, but you can also experiment with other types of music. They have a wider neck, and they’re also played a bit differently. You’ll still be using chords, but the nylon string guitar relies heavily ...
The interactive slides | A bonus blog with the slides of the presentation, fully interactive and bouncing around. But there’s more, I also explain what tools and resources I used and show a bit of the sketching phase and screenshots of things that didn’t make the final cut.A...
In year 12, I picked up a steel string acoustic guitar for the first time. I wanted to play it for church, and there was also a girl I was fairly keen on impressing. So I convinced my brother to teach me a few chords. And slowly, but surely, my mind changed. I was engaged in...