Guitar Songwriting: How to Create Interesting Chords

Tired of the same old D-G-A songs?  Here’s an easy method for creating a brand new chord and using it in a chord progression. Basically, you take a traditional chord, move one finger by one fret.  Go back and forth between the regular chord and its one-note-altered variation.  Then slide the variation to somewhere else…

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I Started Planting “Riffy Seedlings”

I’m sure you can relate.  You are noodling on your guitar and come up with a cool new riff.  You scramble around for something to record, for if you don’t capture it now you’ll soon forget.  Inspirations are fleeting. I first used Quicktime and built-in mic on my Mac, but these days I mostly use…