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Connecticut Shoreline Studio for Music Lessons
in Voice, Piano, Guitar & the Fundamentals of Music

Author: Steve Shelton

Play Guitar Like a Horn Player

Learn a Harmonized Blues Scale – Easy and Fun! My inspiration for this column is from Rich Severson, guitarist, and host of GuitarCollege.com. Rich is one of the smoothest jazz

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Alligators & Lizards Part 2

Let’s go to the videotape! For this column, I made two short videos demonstrating “free playing” over a loop of GMaj7 – Dmaj7, the main Ventura Highway chord progression. In

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Another Hendrix Chord?

The Hendrix Chord: E7#9 Lots of guitarists call the 7#9 chord – the “Hendrix” chord, after the legendary Jimi Hendrix who employed it often, but you can really hear it

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Plays Well With Others

Let’s take a break from all that chord chemistry and talk about something practical (and musical) when playing with another guitarist or keyboard player. I’ve found that if guitarists each

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