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Guitar skills & technique

How to play it, how to set it up, and how to read the rest of this site. Every page starts with the shape or the measurement and works outward.

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• Read a chord diagram — Every chord page uses the same diagram. Learn it once and the whole library is readable.
• Open chords — The shapes that cover most songs: A, C, D, E, G and their minors.
• Barre chords — One movable shape, twelve keys. Why the E and A shapes matter most.
• Power chords — Two notes, no third, and why they work under distortion.
• Tuning — Standard tuning, low-G ukulele, and drop tunings as a starting point.
• String gauges — What a gauge change actually does to tension, feel and intonation.
• Setup and feel — Action, relief and scale length — the measurements that decide how a guitar plays.
• Electronics — What a pickup does to a signal, in numbers rather than adjectives.
• Woods — Tonewoods as mass and stiffness, not as folklore.