Keep your third and fourth fingers on the 4th fret notes while allowing the first string to ring together with them. Use your first and second fingers to reach down to the low strings' bass notes.

Tab is short for tablature, a notational system used to give detailed information as to where notes should be played on the fretboard. Tab appears underneath conventional music notation as six ...

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Where a traditional capo clamps down on top of the fretboard, the Freestyle – like the CapoSonic before it – clamps to the sides, and gives each string an individual 'hammer,' with the option ...

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Example 1 . A minor pentatonic scale for 8-string guitar This is an obvious way to get acquainted with the lower strings: playing the A minor pentatonic. Start at the 8th fret on the first string ...