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This just means that you can play a couple notes higher on the guitar and those notes are so high pitched they are pretty annoying to listen to anyway. Scales and arpeggios by jp dias gustavo lopez segura. A beginners book that doesnt try to force you to read music. It doesnt make a big difference if you have 20, 22, or 24 frets on your guitar. The symbol of the bass clef is derived from the old german way of writing f.
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