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What Are Scales Used For?
Ok, so you can play up and down the major scale. Now what? In this lesson, we’ll take a look at the major scale in action and discover some of the cool things that we can do with it. I’ve created a PDF called “Random Quarter Notes” for this practice session. It will expose you…
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Jerry Reed’s Red-Hot Picking
The basic concept of modern fingerstyle guitar—playing multiple parts at once—was deeply influenced by the work of guitarist, vocalist, producer, composer, and actor, Jerry Reed. The strongest elements of Reed’s style came out of American blues, gospel, and country music. He combined those traits with an intuitive prowess on the instrument and a rambunctious sense…
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5 FREE Blues Guitar Improvisation Lessons
Can’t Play a Lick? Learn Step-By-Step With My Video & Tab Lessons Don’t worry! “Blues Improvisation” will show you how to improvise your own blues leads on the spot. With the new Blues Improvisation course… You’ll learn all the important blues scales You’ll become a master of popular blues techniques- such as bends and vibrato You’ll have…
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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)
Download the e-book: “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…