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Beginner Guitar Lesson Minus One
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Practicing with a Metronome
If you want to be a fast and clean flatpicker, one of the smartest things you can do is to practice using a metronome...
REVISED
Sliding Pentatonics
Moving between the 1st and 2nd positions and a few quick blues riffs.
Band Website Tips
Eleven Ways Bands Can Utilize their Website to Promote their Music...
Introduction to Chord Progressions
A turnaround progression is a sequence of chords that can be continually repeated due to strong sounding chord movement between the ending and starting chords...
Flat Picking Tips for Acoustic Guitar
You may have to "unlearn" some of your guitar playing habits, but the reward will be worth it. By applying these tips, you will be able to play crisp, clean, and fast licks with a flatpick on an acoustic guitar.
Guitar warm ups
Finger stretching exercises before you begin!
Getting Started
Guitar Lesson One for the Absolute Beginner, what you need to know...
Buy A Guitar?
By Mike Furlong - Should You Buy A New, Used, Vintage, Antique, Or Collector Guitar? Open the case on a brand new shiny quality guitar and it's like opening the door to a new sports car or sedan...
Aggressive Practicing
By Jamie Andreas - from the Acclaimed Guitar Principles Method.
Becoming a Great Guitarist
By John Gilliat - great advice for practicing and performing...
Notes on the Guitar
Learn all the notes on the Fretboard! - Revised Lesson
Top 5 Ways to Demolish Perfomance Anxiety for Musicians
Have you ever found yourself performing on stage and looking around, do you see a few people whispering and chatting away to each other? Do you get worried what they are discussing?
Stuck in a Guitar Playing Rut?
As guitar players we sometimes find ourselves in what can only be called a guitar playing rut. According to the dictionary, a "rut" is a fixed, usually boring routine. This is when we get to the point that we feel that we're just going over the same thing time and time again. In other words: not growing as a musician... - 6/25/06
How to Read Guitar Tab
Guitar Tablature or TAB is the most common method of writing out music for the guitar. It is different from classical music notation in that, TAB uses ordinary numbers and keyboard characters as opposed to standard musical notation... Revised Lesson
Major Scales
The Major Scale Formula - Guitar Stew by Cookie G...
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How to Tune a Guitar
Beginner lesson covering different guitar tuning methods, including unison tuning or "tuning by ear." Also, check out guitar tuning lesson 2 and with mp3 sound and how to tune with harmonics.
Coping with Stagefright
Does the thought of playing your guitar in public give you the willies? Stagefright is a common experience among musicians.
Buying a Guitar Amp
There is an ongoing argument among guitarists over the relative importance of a good guitar as opposed to a good guitar amp.
How To Change Guitar Strings
Changing your guitar strings might make you feel a litte uncomfortable if you have never done it before, but it's really quite simple and should become a regular part of your guitar care routine. Before you do anything...
Blues Licks
Heres a few easy blues guitar riffs in E by Brett...
Finding a Guitar Teacher
Finding a good teacher is not always easy, at any level. At the beginner level it is important to get on the right foot and as an intermediate player you need to know that your teacher really knows his or her stuff...
Major Guitar Chords
One of the most important parts of playing the guitar is the ability to play chords. - Beginner lesson on guitar chords G, C and D...
Speed Scale Exercise
This is an excellent scale pattern for developing guitar picking speed, and good technique for both hands!
