126 Reply by sumelton1

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in fact take a look at this:
http://www.guitarlessonworld.com/lessons/lesson6.htm

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127 Reply by sumelton1

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sorry but it means something else

each line is a string eadgbe being the open note of each string
each number is a fret.
this is what is really meant by tablature (tab) and shows us picking patterns.

search on youtube for guitar lessons to see strumming techniques or look at the resources section

happy strumming

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128 Reply by sumelton1

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jerome.oneil wrote:

...  You can play three chord ditties all day long at the neck, but all you'll ever play is three chord ditties.  There's nothing wrong with that, but it limits you as an artist.....

Panic !!- you mean I should learn more than three chords? :-)

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129 Reply by sumelton1

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Zurf is right, there are expanding possibilities in modern playing and nobody is going to throw away those trusty techniques.

I guess what I'm getting at is that if throwing a barre on a Bm is delaying the rhythm by half a beat, whereas grabbing it with the thumb doesn't - then why panic when it seems good enough for for some pretty nifty big name players. Many tabs show the default barre form of a chord, when it's absolutely not what the artist is playing. Youtube is great for looking at that.

Of course fingerstyle, classical or advanced picking is a different matter ... however I also think Suzanne Vega doesn't do much barring either - maybe it forces songwriters into using those characterful open string patterns!

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130 Reply by sumelton1

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Hi - depends on what you love to play!
Can't beat KT Tunstall, Oasis, Beatles for the bedroom basics.
My latest fave play is Golden Age by Beck, followed by Half the World Away by Oasis, Miniature Disasters by KT. You can see them on youtube and tabs are allover!

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131 Reply by sumelton1

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Barres chords are important for sure - but don't get totally hung up on them. I have been playing barres (and struggling with the pace of laying some) for ages - but recently less. Why? Because if you watch performers like Noel Gallagher, KT Tunstall and Beck, they hardly (maybe never) throw one. Golden Age is normally tabbed with Fm (not a difficult barre - and essential for Beatles stuff! - George knew all the proper chords!) but if you look at YouTube performance of Beck he clearly uses a muted non barre form - and sometimes these forms sound better in a sort of percussive strumming way.

And often a B7 is better than a B, a 5th fret A sounds good with open strings - and so on. It's IMHO more to do with flow and style - and maybe reducing the strain in a concert! Opinions on this phenomenon  are appreciated, because watching the above perform has certainly changed my mind about a subject that- quite frankly- puts some people off playing good acoustic numbers from tabs.

Maybe someone can list alternative fingerings, and discuss whether barres are fading out of "modern popular" playing?

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