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The Beginner’s Warm-Up Routine
It’s usually a good idea to spend 10-15 minutes warming up especially if you plan on doing a lot of playing. Below I’ve devised a simple warm-up routine that should get you going. I’ll show you how you should run through it in the video. Download the guitar tab and music notation for this lesson…
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Scale Dictionary
Click Here to download the Scale Dictionary! It’s a PDF that includes tab and music notation for 26 different scales. Watch the video and play along!
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The Whole Note
The whole note lasts for the whole measure when in standard time. In other words, the whole note gets 4 beats in 4/4 time. Most other notes divide the whole note. For example, half notes are played for one half the duration of the whole not. This is what the whole note looks like:
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Half Note
A half note is a note played for twice the duration of a quarter note. In time signatures with a denominator of 4, such as 4/4 or 3/4 time, the half note is two beats long. It looks like this: You can think of the half note as dividing the whole note into two. This…
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The Quarter Note
A quarter note is a note that represents the duration of one beat. In other words, it gets one beat. It looks like this: You remember that I told you that a song in standard (4/4) time gets 4 beats per measure, right? That would mean that the song would get 4 quarter notes per…
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Basic Rhythmic Notation
In this lesson, we’ll learn about quarter notes, half notes, whole notes, and eighth notes. We’ll learn how to read them in notation and practice playing basic exercises using these types of notes. Before you tackle this session you may want to take a look at these two lessons: note values and measures as I talk about…
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“Easy Does It” Jam Session
For this session, I’ve created an easy composition that we’ll call “Easy Does It”. It will allow you to practice three to four different parts and play each part in a virtual jam session. There should be a little something for everyone to sink their teeth into. It’s easy enough that you can focus on…
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Parts Of The Guitar
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The Notes On The Fretboard
The diagram below shows you all of the primary notes on the fretboard of the guitar. You’ll use it in order to identify the name of the key signature. In order to get a sharp (#) simply go up one fret. To get a flat (b) just go down one fret. For example F# (2nd fret, low E string) would…
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The History Of Dot Inlays
Memorizing the name of the notes on the entire fretboard can be a daunting task. A standard guitar has 21 or more frets. That’s 126 or more frets to memorize… or is it? Realize that the 12th fret is the same note as the open string. This is called an octave. An octave is the…