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How to play 5 classic Christmas songs on guitar – with tab and chords
In the spirit of the Axemas season, we’ve compiled a handful of select solo guitar arrangements of popular Christmas songs, including Deck the Halls, Silent Night and Jingle Bells
How to borrow chords from a parallel minor key and lend your songs a bittersweet edge
Learn a songwriting trick used by everyone from Eric Clapton to The Beatles
How to tune your guitar by ear
Train your ears with our guide to tuning a guitar for beginners - no tuner required
How to tune your guitar to drop D tuning by ear
Don't have a tuner lying around? Fear not! Learn this all-powerful alternate tuning the easy way
Change the mood and spice up your tunes with parallel major and minor keys
Impart a touch of sadness or melancholy to an otherwise happy and predictable-sounding progression
Make your compositions soar using augmented climb progressions
How to inject a sense of drama into your songwriting
How using the augmented chord in a minor drop progression can change your songs
Paul McCartney, David Gilmour, George Harrison, Tom Petty and many more have done this in their music, so why shouldn't you?
This compositional trick has been used to great effect by Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots, The Eagles, Queen and many more
Learn how to walk down scales with contrary motion
