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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.
• Chords by type — The book's own order: every chord quality on all twelve roots, with the inversions it names.
• Chords by name — Every named chord, A to Z, with its quality and root, and its fingering chart.
• Tuning — Standard tuning, the drop tunings, the open tunings, and what each one changes.
• 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.