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Want to start playing guitar? We found this Absolute Beginner Course on YouTube. These video’s include tips and lessons for absolute beginners of all ages! Follow along and grow with the updates! Today: Power Chords…

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Tuning is the act of adjusting string tension so that all open notes are in tune (sound the correct pitch). Intonation is the act of adjusting the bridge or saddles of a properly tuned guitar so that fretted notes also sound the correct pitches or frequencies. Tuning is a function of string tension. Intonation is a function of string geometry.

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Want to start playing guitar? We found this Absolute Beginner Course on YouTube. These video’s include tips and lessons for absolute beginners of all ages! Follow along and grow with the updates! Today: alternate picking…

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Want to start playing guitar? We found this Absolute Beginner Course on YouTube. These video’s include tips and lessons for absolute beginners of all ages! Follow along and grow with the updates! Today, your first finger-building exercise…

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Want to start playing guitar? We found this Absolute Beginner Course on YouTube. These video’s include tips and lessons for absolute beginners of all ages! Follow along and grow with the updates! Today, learn how to tune your guitar.

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The major scale forms the basis of all Western music. All other scales and chords can be traced back to and/or derived from the major scale. One of the easiest scales to derive from the major scale is its relative minor scale because the two scales employ the exact same notes. The scale derived in this fashion is called a natural minor scale.

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Want to start playing guitar? We found this Absolute Beginner Course on YouTube. These video’s include tips and lessons for absolute beginners of all ages! Follow along and grow with the updates!

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When we start to learn music in the 4^th or 5^th grade, we are taught the names of all the notes: A, B, C, D, E, F and G. Or maybe: do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti and do. And there it is—the simple major scale. Yes, the major scale: it is so simple that we teach it to elementary school kids. Yet, it is the backbone of western music. Simple—yet so versatile. It has been called the “Mother of All Scales” for it forms the basis for constructing all other scales. But, what is a major scale? Can you define it?

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If you’ve ever picked up a guitar, you know that by placing your fingers at various places on the finger board, you can change the pitch or tone of the note. If you know how to play the guitar—even a little bit, you will know that you can find the exact same note on your guitar in several different locations. This is because there are three different ways to change pitch on the guitar (or any stringed instrument) and these three ways interact with each other to create musical tones on the guitar. The three ways are:

1. Change the length of the string
2. Change the thickness of the string
3. Change the tension on the string

Let us explore each of these mechanisms from a physics or mechanics point of view:

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The major scale forms the basis of all Western music. All other scales and chords can be traced back to and/or derived from the major scale. Thus it is the first scale that we need to thoroughly understand.

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