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Guitar Pages

Page Index: eBooks | DIY for Guitar | Science of Guitar | Philosophy | Guitar Components | How It All Works | The Guitar | Jazz and Blues Chords/Progressions Guitar Music | Strumming | Sheet Music | Warm-Ups | Practice | Lessons | Playing Exercises | Microtonal

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Guitar eBooks
The two eBooks below are different:
Guitar PDF 117p. Opens in new window.
The Guitar
Browse Amazon for some select books:
DIY Guitar Books Guitar electronics, building, effects, and amps
DIY Guitar Electronics Books A very small and select collection of books

DIY for Guitar
DIY Index This is a great resource of links, downloads, PDFs, and htm pages. Learn all of your DIY guitar needs here.
Effects Descriptions
The Technology of Auto-Wahs / -Envelope-Controlled Filters
Build Your Own Humidifier
Putting the Stomp Box Together NEW

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How Guitar Components Work
Amplifier Basics
Guitar Effects:What They Do
Guitar Effects:Digital
How Guitar Amps Are Used
PUPS: Different Positions
Guitar Amplifiers: Valves vs Solid State

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The Science of Guitar
Guitar Amplifier Basics
Guitar Amplifiers - Overdrive & Distortion
Guitar Effects - The Digital Revolution
Guitar Effects - Order & Tips
Acoustic Concepts/Measurement Technique
Understanding Guitar Schematics

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The Philosophy of Guitar
by Dr.Jamie Andreas
Natural Talent
Climb Every Mountain
Your Hand is Your Band: The Importance of Fingering
Your Growth as a Guitarist: Vertical or Horizontal?
Why Should I Learn To Read Music?
Think 10 Times, Play Once!
The Secret of Speed: Finding the Incredible Lightness
The Inner Master
Can I Teach Guitar?
Perfect Intention
Pulling Up The Slack: Mining Your Potential
The Glue of Repetition
The Alexander Technique: -Taking Pressure Off Your Body
Changing Bad Habits
Easy Bar Chords
On Memorizing
Attentional Deployment
Changing Chords. Having a little trouble with those "easy" chords?
Review is Required!
Real Life Scenes From Dr. Jamie' Studio: Another Guitarist Brought Out of "Musical Coma"
Teachers Lounge: You Treat a Thing The Way You Define It
Double Trouble
Get the Juices Flowing
Lost In Time
Moving in the Direction of Skill
Shifting
Review is Required!
Removing The Barriers To -Musical Expression
Goalines Not Deadlines

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How it all works!
The Electric Guitar: History, Tunings, Pickups, etc.
How to: Maintain, Adjust, String, and Tune Your Guitar
Simple Guitar Physics
Strings, Standing Waves and -Harmonics
What is a Sound Spectrum?
What is a decibel?
What's In a Pickup?
Guitar Pickups - Tone & -Timbre
Guitar Pickups - Different Positions
Guitar Pickups Combinations
How Guitar Amplifiers Are Used
Guitar Amplifier Basics
Guitar Amplifiers - Valve Emulations
Guitar Amplifiers - Valves vs Solid State
Guitar Amplifiers - Overdrive & Distortion
Guitar Amplifiers: Power and Volume
Guitar Effects - What They Do
Guitar Effects-Digital
Guitar Effects - The Digital Revolution
Guitar Effects - Order & Tips
AcousticConcepts/Measurement Technique
Understanding Guitar Schematics

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Jazz and Blues Chord Progressions
Composing With the Blues
Jazz: Diminshed Scale Chord Progressions
Chord Progression and Improvisation
Blues Progression 1
Blues Progression 2
Blues Progression 3
Blues Progression 4
Blues Progression 5
Blues Progression 6
Blues Progression 7
A Study in Blues PDF
Study in F, Gm7, C7, F PDF
Study in G, E7, Am7, D7 PDF
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Music for Guitar
Below is music in the form of chords. Most are twelve-bar blues, but it will get more difficult as you go down the list. To get the most out of these progressions you should listen to a recording of the song, and find the lyrics...then just strum along.

Stormy Monday PDF
KCs Blues PDF
For Stompers Only PDF
Green Onion Blues PDF
JB Goodes Blues PDF
Minor Jazz Blues PDF
Ms Slows Blues PDF
Twelve Bar Blues in D PDF
Twelve Bar Blues in A PDF
Hesitation Blues PDF
I'm So Glad PDF
Sitting On Top of the World PDF

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Strumming Exercises
These are basic strumming exercises that get progressively more difficult. If possible, you should try to spend 15 minutes, twice a day practicing these exercises.

Sets 1 & 2 PDF
Sets 3 & 4 PDF
Sets 5 & 6 PDF
Sets 7 & 8 PDF
Sets 9 & 10 PDF
Sets 11 & 12 PDF
Sets 13 & 14 PDF
Sets 15 & 16 PDF
Sets 17 & 18 PDF
Sets 19 & 20 PDF

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Sheet Music
Ask Me Now
This I Dig of You
Lydian April
What's New
Belonging PDF
Kake PDF
Mocambo PDF
Einstein's Scretary PDF
Gabrielle PDF

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Practice PagesPDFs
Alternate Tunings
Guitar Chord Forms
Music Information
Beginnning Warm-up
Fretboard Warm-up
More Warm-ups
Hammer-on Drills
Pull-off Drills
Combination Drills
Progression
Fretboard -Intervals
Position Intervals
Blues Warm-up
Pentatonic Scales
More Pentatonic -Scales
Pentatonic -Stretching
Blues In E
Blues In A
Minor Chords
The Major Scale
Major Scale Tabs
Music Theory
Circle of Fiftths
Augmented Chords
Moveable Chords
Scale Degrees
6th Chords
7th Chords
9th Chords
Diminished Triads
Classical Tablature

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Guitar Lessons
Flamenco Guitar Exercises
Acoustic Guitar Magazine Exercises
Guitar Exercises--Strength and Speed
Guitar Speed Picking Exercises
Spanish Guitar Exercises
Francesco Fareri Guitar Exercises
Guitar Scale Exercises
Free Online Guitar Lessons
Guitar Dreams Exercises
Acoustic Guitar Technique
Guitar Notes
Ultimate Guitar Lessons
Folk of the Wood--Acoustic Lessons
The Ultimate Online Guitar Tutor
Jazz Guitar Lessons
Flamenco Guitar Lessons

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Guitar Exercises
Lesson #1, 4/21/98-Chromatic Exercises I Three Chromatic exercises, great warm-ups
Lesson #2, 7/6/98-Steve Morse Pt.1 Eight examples taken from Steve's Exercise
Lesson #3, 7/7/98-Steve Morse Pt.2 Steve's full length Personal Picking Exercise
Lesson #4, 7/19/98 Economy Picking A study in Economy Picking
Lesson #5, 7/20/98 Chromatic Octave Exercise A great right hand exercise.
Lesson #6, 7/21/98 Chromatic Exercises II Four warm-up/stamina building exercises
Finger-Build Riffs some good riffs to develop speed and strength.
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Microtonal
Stickman An old family friend and one of the best.
John Loffink's Microtonal Synthesis Database
Alternate Tunings Mailing List
John Starrett's Microtonal Music Links
Microtonal Bands
Microtonal Instruments
Bohlen-Pierce Scale Just -Intonation explained by Kyle Gann
Graham's Microtonal Website
Definitions of Tuning Terms by Joseph L. Monzo

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