Guitar is Hard

Описание: It's not just you--despite its reputation for being a chill, down-to-earth instrument, the guitar is surprisingly hard. Let's commiserate and enumerate all the ways in which this instrument is a confusing pain. Don't worry though, by the end we will also discover what makes the guitar special and cool.

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Chris McQueen co-leads the band Forq and the acoustic guitar duo Read/McQueen, plays guitar in Snarky Puppy, Bokanté, and Banda Magda, arranges music, makes videos, builds music apps, and teaches private lessons. Go to https://www.chrismcqueen.com for more info.

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REFERENCES & CREDITS
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https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.ph...

"Three Chords and the Truth" song is by Chase Rice

Herbie Hancock photo: Columbia Records Publicity Photo, circa 1976 (Credit: Sony Music Archives)

Fur Elise (by Beethoven) by Beethoven Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported— CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Music provided by FreeMusic109    / freemusic109  

All other music is original unless it's obviously what it is. I forgot to caption the Dick Dale Misirlou clip toward the end:    • Dick Dale & The Del Tones "Misirlou" 1963  

Dude crushing it at Guitar Hero:    • Through The Fire And Flames 100% Expert Gu...  

Piano with only white keys — https://www.classicfm.com/discover-mu...

Just intonation vs. equal temperament chart simplified from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_equa...

CAGED diagram from https://onlineguitarbooks.com
Matrix effect:    • MATRIX (Concentration / Programming music)...  
Lighting design heavily influenced by ContraPoints
Consulting and outro illustration by Erin McQueen (based on a photograph by Christian Thomas Hynes)