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HOW TO PLAY RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS-STYLE CHORDS PART TWO

Looking at figure 1, you might say we have a normal chord followed by an abnormal chord. The D major chord is a common movable shape that can be played all over the guitar. The Em7/D voicing is fixed in this one position, mixes fretted notes with open strings, unusually doubles the minor seventh and has the open fourth (D) string as its bass note.

Give each chord two bars of vigorous

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