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Changing your volume to suit a song will make your playing more dynamic. With audio examples
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BREAK THE CHORDS is similar, but this time we’ll add broken, or partial, chords to the mix. Use downstrokes, strumming just the two strings. These examples do more than help you with dynamics; they also help develop dexterity in your picking hand and give you more confidence in playing arpeggios and broken chord patterns, which are tools every guitarist should have.
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Break the Chords
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ENJOY THE SILENCE: 5 minutes
But the easiest technique? Total silence. Think about Eddie Cochran’s “Summertime Blues” (page 46) when the whole band drops out for the last line of each verse. That silence makes the band’s reentry more powerful. It’s even more dramatic in the Who’s version.
GOLDEN SILENCE demonstrates how this might be used in surf music (to learn more, read “Be the King [or Queen] of Surf Guitar” on page 40). In measures one and two, strum loudly on the first beat. In measure three, play the first and third beats even louder, then play eighth notes in the last measure, building to a crescendo.
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Golden Silence
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