Using the Guitar as a Songwriting Tool
Learn how to use the guitar as a songwriting tool. Practical insights on rhythm, harmony, and restraint to help your songs hold together.
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Learn how to use the guitar as a songwriting tool. Practical insights on rhythm, harmony, and restraint to help your songs hold together.
Most players learn rhythm guitar through patterns. Songwriters don’t work that way. When you’re writing songs—especially in environments like Nashville—the rhythm guitar part is a core arrangement decision, not a default texture. It shapes the groove, the vocal space, and the feel of the hook. Great rhythm parts don’t draw attention to themselves. They make…
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