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Top 20 Best Acoustic Guitar Songs of the 60’s

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May 16, 2021 by Klaus Crow

Top 20 Best Acoustic Guitar Songs of the 60’s

Today I’ve put together a list of the most popular acoustic guitar songs of the 60’s. The purpose of this list is to give you inspiration, fuel that spark to take your guitar out of the stand and play some of these golden classics.

Maybe you’ll find some marvellous songs you haven’t heard before. Well now is the perfect time to learn something new. There are songs here for beginners and intermediate players, so take your pick and strum along!

Tip: Don’t just quickly glance through the list and go on with your day, but really take a moment and pick out one song you want practice. Write down at least one favourite. Just to remind yourself and reward yourself to play guitar. You’ve earned it!

Notes: This list is in no particular order and of course it’s incomplete. So if you have a suggestion for a great 60’s acoustic guitar song please share them in the comments.

Each song title contains a YouTube link to the original song. The “Chords” link will take you to the chords & lyrics or tabs and the “More” link will show you more great songs, chords, Tabs of the same artist.

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Enjoy playing!
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How to Play and Apply Dominant 7th Chords

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September 4, 2023 by Klaus Crow

How to play and apply dom7th chords

The dominant 7th chord is a chord that you will find in a lot of popular songs and many styles of music. In fact it’s the most essential chord type in blues music and one of the defining characteristics that defines the blues sound. But even if you’re not into blues, you want to make this chord part of your guitar vocabulary.

The dom7 chord comes in various shapes and sizes. We start with the “open” dom7 chords which are great for beginners and work our way up to more intermediate level dom7 chords: “The moveable chords”.

We’ll first take you through some basic dominant 7th music theory, we’ll show you the different types of dom7 chords and shapes, and then apply the chords to the song.

Let’s dive in!

Chord Analysis

The Dom7 chord is simply a major triad with a flatted seventh (b7).
The major triad consists of the root (1), the major third (3) and the perfect fifth (5).
So the Dom7 chord formula = 1 3 5 b7

Let’s take a Cdom7 (also called “C7”) chord as an example.
We look at the C major scale: C D E F G A B C and we take the root (1st), 3rd, 5th and b7th note of that scale and you get the notes: C-E-G-Bb. So a Cdom7 (C7) chord consists of the notes: C E G Bb

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