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How to play Guitar Strings Twelve – joy and Danger

The first step in learning to play the twelve string guitar is the same as learning six cuerdas – play some chords and scales to harden your fingertips and get the muscles of the hands on the guitar play mode. A technical difficulty twelve strings is that you need to press down on two strings instead of one to play a note. This takes some practice to hold down fret.

Once you have a little practice with the twelve-string probably will notice, like many other guitarists, this is the best instrument to play chords Instead of single-note solos. The twelve-string has a distinctive sound that is interesting when used for solos, but it's really at its best, with ringing open chords.

The first four pairs of strings are an octave apart. The tuning is very critical of the twelve string and it would be better to use an electronic tuner.

One of the most famous twelve string guitar players was Leadbelly, one of the pioneers of blues players in the first half of the twentieth century. So let's look at playing the blues in the twelve-string guitar. As the blues usually has guitar solos single notes so you have to work on his single note playing technique. Many musicians recommended blues tune the twelve-string guitar to an open G or E chord. In addition to carrying out the beauty of the twelve-string twang, the use of a slide get the real effect of blues.

Here are some of pitches that can be used to play slide on a twelve string guitar:

Open one: eE aA AAC # C # EE eE

Open C: eE cC cC cC gg gg

Open D: AA AA DD DD DD F # f #

Open F: FF FF CC CC CC AA

Open G: bB gG gG dD DD DD

Hawaii: CC CC AA EE gG gG

Slack C: gg gg CC CC CCCC

George Harrison of The Beatles played a Rickenbacker 360/12 twelve string guitar in the film A Hard Day's Night and is inspired Roger McGuinn of The Byrds to go out and buy one and have it on record. Harrison played twelve strings on You Can not Do That, one of the first successes of the Beatles to find that track and have a listen to the sound. And go to YouTube to find some examples of music The Byrds. Leo Kottke is another artist who has used the twelve-string guitar with good results as a solo instrument.

And finally, have a listen to Led Zeppelin and The Eagles with double neck guitar to switch between six and twelve string of Stairway To Heaven and Hotel California.

Rick Vito Bio on Complete Guide to Slide Guitar Lesson DVD

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