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You’ve been thinking about it for a while, but you’re just not sure how much time, money and emotional expense you want to invest in your singing career. You’re sure you ve got the talent or you wouldn’t even be deliberating the opportunity, but still the question remains. With so many so called “experts” all willing to take your money for some service of some kind, where do you begin to embark upon your singing dream? Certainly if “so and so” can make it in the music business, I certainly should have a chance as well - Or do you?

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Turnarounds are chord progressions with the last chord taking you back to the first chord thus making it possible to play these progressions over and over again as an intro to a song, an ending or between verses. Here are some nice sounding but easy turnarounds for you!

In order not to mess up the layout with the guitar tab staff I will not include left hand fingerings but I suggest that you choose left hand fingers carefully so you don’t get into trouble!

However, in order to learn to play these guitar chord progressions as intended I will say something about your right hand fingerings.

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In this journey of learning and mastering the guitar, I wanted to answer this important question. I had an idea of learning “pure control” over the guitar. In other words, a gut-level expressiveness and raw improvisational ability.

After thinking about it, (and after years of practice), I would say there are 3 essential components, that when put together, form a powerful foundation for this kind of expressive lead guitar control.

These three components are:
1) Technique,
2) Fretboard Knowledge, and
3) a “Brain-to-Hand” Connection.

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As an independent musician and/or recording artist, if you did *NOT* earn $30,000 (or more) with your music alone last year, let’s jump right in and get you started with doing so this year.

Again, bear in mind that the main necessary ingredient is “consistency” of every aspect, and on a weekly basis.

Remember! This is a worst case scenario, in regard to what you should be able to easily earn within each aspect, and you are very likely to earn much more.

The “lead generator(s)” in each aspect reflects the various resources that you will use to obtain results in these areas.

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The history of modern musical keyboards dates back to at least the first century AD, as Vitruvius work on architecture during the same era provided information about an organ that had balanced keys. It is a well-known fact that in 757 AD, Emperor Constantine sent a musical instrument with keys as a gift to King Pepin of France.

The evolution of the musical keyboard continued with music genius Guido of Arezzo, who applied the keyboard to stringed musical instruments in the 11th century. Even as modern musical keyboards have undergone many changes over the last few decades, the basic key layout has not been much different from the traditional concept.

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