![]() Save your markings on the guitar by copying the web address in your browser. Play the marked notes by clicking "Play" or pressing the spacebar on your keyboard. Press and hold the alt key on your keyboard to mark notes with ♯ instead of ♭. Click "Mark" to mark notes on the fretboard as you click on each one. Click "Sounds" to choose between different guitar sounds. Press and hold the shift key (⇧) and use the top two keyboard rows, to play the top two strings.Ĭlick "Highlight" above the guitar to show note names. The four rows of keys on your keyboard corresponds to the four lowest strings on the guitar. ![]() It's times like these when it can be good for the psyche to shake things up a bit, to do something different and off the cuff.Use your computer keyboard or click on the guitar strings to play the guitar. We feel as though we are not playing anything new, like we're stuck in a rut. I have said before that there are times for all of us that our playing gets a little stale. Open E tuning is also used quite a bit for slide guitar as well as Dobro. ![]() Do this back and forth a few times, starting with the open strings chord, then going to the E "shape" chord.Ĭan you recognize the opening chords for the intro to "She Talks To Angels" by the Black Crowes? Then lift your fingers off and strum the open strings. In this open E tuning, form an open E chord just like you would in standard tuning and play it. When in this tuning, have a little fun and play around with forming chords and discovering new ones. Always turn your head away from the guitar when tuning up higher than normal, to prevent a snapping string from striking your face or eyes. When tuning strings up to a higher pitch, you are adding more tension to them and they can sometimes break if you go too high. If you know the notes on the 6th string, then the note on the 6th string at the fret where your finger is making the barre is the root note for the chord you are playing. Want to play a G chord? Simply barre the strings across the 3rd fret. Want to play an A chord in this tuning? Just lay your 1st finger across all the strings on the 5th fret and strum. Do this by playing the note on the 4th fret of the 4th string (after this one has already been tuned higher), and matching the 3rd string to itĢnd string (B) - leave it as it is normallyġst string (E) - leave it as it is normally In this case the 4th string will now become an "octave" of the 1st or 6th string.ģrd string (G) - tune this string up to a G#. Do this by playing either the 6th string, or 1st string, and tuning the 4th string to match it. Do this by playing the note on the 7th fret of the 6th string, and tuning up the 5th string to match itĤth string (D) - tune this string up to an E. Let's look first at how to tune your guitar to an open E tuning.Ħth string (E) - leave it as it is normallyĥth string (A) - tune this string up to a B. Then by placing one finger across any fret and barring those notes, she is playing another full chord. Quite often hers is tuned to an open E chord.īy tuning the guitar to an open chord she can strum it without any fingers on it, and be playing a full chord - in this case, an E. She does it by tuning her guitar to an open chord. Sounds impossible to those of us who struggle to contort our fingers into all shapes imaginable to form complex guitar chords, but for her it's easy. But with Dolly, we're talking about daggers, nails that can do some real damage!įor her it's simple. Sure, it's possible to play guitar with long finger nails, classical guitarists do it all the time. Have you ever watched Dolly play guitar? If so, have you wondered how she can sit down with a guitar and play it without those long, claw-like finger nails getting in the way? Singer, songwriter, performer, actress and brilliant business woman.Īlways dressed to the nines, not a hair out of place, perfect make up and lipstick - and painted finger nails. ![]()
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