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CHORD CLINIC A MAJOR

The A major chord is one of the easier chords to play but, on guitars with close string spacing, players with large fingers sometimes struggle to hold down all three notes cleanly. Don’t be afraid to squash your fingers together tightly here, and angle your hand so that the fingers are as close to the second fret as possible.

A major is a great key for songwriting, partly because chords IV

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