Video Question: Tunings of a Song

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Date: September 19th, 2007 | Length: 2.15 | Instructor: Steve Eulberg

Element1290 writes "Is there any special way that one can tell the tuning of a song?" Another benefit of being a member of JamPlay is the video response section. Our expert staff fields questions from our members and provides video responses each week.

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