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Caring For Your Acoustic Guitar
This article will explain how to take care of your acoustic guitar. An acoustic guitar will last a lifetime if properly taken care of. Your guitar is made of thin wood which is easily affected by temperature and humidity. This combination is the most important single part of your guitar’s surroundings. Martin keeps its factory…
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Open D Tuning
What Is It? Open D tuning, also called ‘Brady Clark Tuning’ is an open tuning for the acoustic or electric guitar. The open string notes in this tuning are: D-A-D-F#-A-D (from low E to high E). It uses the three notes that form the triad of a D major chord: D, the root note A,…
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Ten Easy Classic Rock Guitar Riffs
I present to you ten instantly recognizable riffs from some of the biggest rock acts in history. Wanna know what the cool part is? They’re all easy to learn! That’s right, here are ten riffs you should be able to play, no matter what your level. They serve as a great confidence booster and introduction…
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Pentatonic Scales (Music Theory For The Guitarist)
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Obsessive Progressive: How to Decode Advanced Polymeters
Last month we began to wrestle with time signatures like 5/4 and 7/4 [“Obsessive Progressive: Get a Grip on Odd-Meter Time Signatures”], so in this lesson we’ll push past basic odd-meter patterns and see what it’s like to mix in some 16th-note subdivisions. So, as the name might suggest, a 16th-note-based time signature is one…
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A Crash Course In Lead Guitar
A lead guitar is a guitar part that plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, and guitar solos within a song structure. What I’m going to show you, in a nutshell, is how to improvise a lead guitar part over any song. It doesn’t matter why type of song it is, because the principles of music are the…
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Download And Play 445 EZ Strum Guitar Songs- Fast Fun & Accurate
I wanted to tell you about a new guitar song training offering that has me really excited! My good friend, Nathan Wilson, has been diligently building digital download sets of EZ strum along videos to 445 popular songs and I have convinced him to let me show it to my visitors for the unbelievable low…
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Acoustic Drills And Exercises
In this lesson, we’re going to take a look at a few ways you can improve your acoustic guitar technique. We’ll go through some drills and exercises that you can use daily that will help you play faster, cleaner, and better. We’ll be looking at exercises that will benefit both the picking hand and the…
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“Hoochie Coochie Man” by Muddy Waters
“Hoochie Coochie Man” is a song written by Willie Dixon and was first recorded by Muddy Waters in 1954. This song is performed at about 108 beats per minute. We’ll be learning it in the key of A. It’s in 12/8 time, which is like 4/4 time, but with a swing. It still has 4…
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“Bad Feelin’ Blues” by Ry Cooder (For Slide Acoustic)
Here’s a great little song to play on the acoustic with a slide. It’s in open D tuning. Watch the video directly below to learn how to tune to open D, then you’ll be ready to learn the song in the next video: Once you’re tuned to open D you’re ready There’s a…