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Contents 1 Requests for new guitar-related articles 2 Guitar-related articles in need of updating 3 Other discussions 4 Guitar Portal Link 5 Audio clips for electric guitar related articles?

[edit] Requests for new guitar-related articles

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Could anyone explain how to add harmony to a tune? e.g. how to discover which chords could be used to accompany a simple one voice tune.

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If you're playing a Blues based harmony, you have to find the tonic chord first, and than follow through the harmony:

1 1 1 1 4 4 1 1 5 5 4 4 1 1 5

The numbers represent degrees on the scale. For instance, if playing on C:

C C C C F F C C G G F F C C G

Note: The chords will only work if you playing on 4/4

Hope i've helped you.

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First, as stated above, find out what your tonic chord is. That's easy. You just figure out what scale you're playing in (most of the time, you might change key temporarily in a melody to spice up a tune) and look at what the tonic of that scale is. Prime up yourself with an online encyclopaedia. I can't think of one to use right now, but articles on Harmony and Chords ought to clue you up a little more before you start harmonizin', yo.

Let's say you're playing in C Major, which has the notes: C D E F G A B. Easy. Your tonic would be C Major, which comprises the notes of C, E and G. Note how you have a root of the chord, skip a note, get the third, skip a note, get the fifth, to reach a chord. Therefore the chords in C Major are:

C major (CEG) D minor (DFA) E minor (EGB) F major (FAC) G major (GBD) A minor (ACE) and B diminished (BDF)

From then on, just experiment. If you reach a point in your melody where you think you need a chord change, like you can hear it going to happen in your head, look at what note you're playing. If you're playing the G note, you can play a basic C major, E minor, or G major underneath it, as they've all got the G note in them.

That ought to clear things up.

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Hi everyone, newbie here, I did a search for self tuning guitars and keywords of the like and didn't find anything, so I thought a page or two on self tuning guitars would be worth the effort. I found some great stuff... can I link it here? Not really html-literate in any great sense but can make do, if someone would like to help or point me in the right direction that would be great. I guess I'll just start writing in Word and see what I come up with. Elvisfromtj 08:39, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Guitar-related articles in need of updating

I've copied this from my statement on the effects unit page: Across the "effects unit", "effects pedal" and "guitar effects" pages, there appears to be a lot of redundant content. People are arguing on the "effects unit" page against merging "unit" and "pedal," but could we perhaps retitle "effects unit" to be multi-effects unit, or "rack effects (unit)? I feel that just 'unit' is somewhat vague, and if we agreed to just write about rack effects, or multieffects units, and said as much, it might be more clear. A distinction would have to be made between rack and floor multieffects units. -dialectric User:Dialectric

I agree! Steve Carlson^Talk 00:42, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Other discussions

Anything else... Does anyone know much about "Ventura" guitars. They are Asian made from the '70's. I'm looking at a 12-string electric, circa. early '70's, but the seller doesn't know much about the history. Thanks.

Not the right forum for this. Check out the Harmony Central forums. Good luck! Steve Carlson^Talk 00:44, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Guitar Portal Link

There are several pages about famous composers and guitar players that don't have the "Visit the Guitar Portal" link on them. I'm completing some of them from here, but I don't know the number of pages that need the link. I could use a little help here. The template is:

I would suggest anypages tagged as Wiki Project Guitarist pages are valid candidates. An easy link for these pages can be found through the projects Assessment Page. (see: Wikipedia:WikiProject Guitarists/Assessment) Perhaps the FA, GA A, B and then START assessed pages could receive the portal link first. Manufacturer/Equipement pages are all very good candidates along with the notable players pages. 142.167.77.147 16:48, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Audio clips for electric guitar related articles?

It would be very useful to have audio clips for all the articles that are about gear-related topics, such as effects pedals, distortion, guitar amplifiers, etc. I think these would be most effective if someone recorded a short dry clip using a direct box and then having various members re-amp that clip through different rigs, so that the variance due to playing style and the guitar itself is minimized and the tonal contribution of that particular piece of gear is maximized. I think it would be better if the clip wasn't a song but instead a series of short exercises that employ the most commonly used playing techniques (strumming chords, arpeggiation, single-note runs, double stops, bends, palm mutes, etc), so the user can hear how that piece of gear interacts with that playing technique. I guess it would be best if we standardized on a microphone too - we should probably use the Shure SM57 since it is in such widespread use for this application. What do people think about this idea? Comments? Steve Carlson^Talk 16:11, 1 June 2008 (UTC)