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    Hi, fellow twanger, I’m back! I trust all is well and that your fingers are nimble and well callused.

    Weekly Lesson

    I finished off the easy version of ‘Over the Rainbow’. I really love this section, the way that outside chord (the F#7) comes into play; the way the melody line works against the bass notes. I think once you get this simplified version down, you’ll be able to have a look at the trickier version I posted months ago and tackle it again. They’re both in the same key and use the same basic elements.

    Over the Rainbow part 2

    Other Lessons

    One of our contributors Fretsource has posted a new lesson on reading standard notation. Being able to sight read is a huge asset for any musician. I sure wish I’d learned how! I think I was always a little too impatient with my playing to stop and put in the time and hard work required to become a fluent reader, but I know for a fact that it would have helped my career as a session player. Many producers don’t use notation — they simply give the musicians chord charts and let them flesh out their parts — but many do. I never got to work with any of them! Fretsource has done a great job of laying it all out in a clear, easy to understand way.

    Standard music notation

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    How to Play Slide Guitar in Standard and Dropped-D Tunings

    My favorite way of extracting music from a guitar is with a slide. There’s something about that sound that does it for me even after 30 years of playing slide, and I enjoy it most in dropped D tuning. Open tunings are great, but you wind up sounding like every other player out there … plus you have to rethink the fretboard every time you switch to a new open tuning. Standard or dropped D are in fact very productive tunings for slide … you just need to think in more compact way. I’ve put together a 70 minute DVD in which I reveal everything I’ve ever learned about the art. Check it out here.

    New movie

    I had fun the other day putting together a little movie of me playing both parts of a duet. I used a classic old tune I first heard as a newborn …

    That’s it for this week, see you next.

    Kirk Lorange
    http://www.guitar.name

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