A step by step way to learn barre chords on guitar with no pain in the process “You think that’s hard? Wait until you learn how to play barre chords.” Many beginner guitar students hear statements like this, or harrowing stories from other students who tried to learn barre chords and found them painful on …
Learning how to play the guitar and learning how to write songs are two different sets of skills. It took me a long time to understand this. As a consequence it took me longer to start writing songs due to my false belief that I needed to get better on the guitar before I could. …
In this lesson I will show you how to understand and read time signatures. You will also be given musical examples to play on the guitar to get the feel of different time signatures in music. What are time signatures? If you look at the beginning of any piece of music, next to the treble …
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When you’re a beginner on the guitar you spend most of your practice time learning new skills. You start from knowing nothing and you have to figure out how to place your fingers, hold the pick, strum, read guitar tabs and play your first chords and songs, among many other things. As you reach an …
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It takes more than playing scales up and down to create a good guitar solo. However, scale runs – ascending or descending a scale using linear, repetitive or staggered movements – are an important component of soloing and a good source of ideas. Scale runs can be used to create content for your solo, to …
Guitar scales are usually taught using either the CAGED system or 3 note per string patterns. 3 note per string scale patterns are much more efficient than CAGED. Tommaso Zillio explains perfectly why this is the case. Click here if you’re undecided which system to use to learn scales. Guitar scales on one string are …
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Learning classical guitar can be daunting due to the sheer number of skills you need to acquire and master. These include reading sheet music and building up your fretting and plucking techniques. One essential skill that often falls by the wayside is playing guitar chords. More often than not, classical guitar students pay more attention …
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In this lesson I gave you a step by step process you can use to start writing songs with the guitar. In today’s lesson we’ll delve deeper on an important topic for songwriters: Diatonic chord progressions. A chord progression is a series of two or more chords played in an order. Diatonic chords are chords …
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Q: Can electric guitarists use a simpler way of reading music than standard notation? A: Yes, reading guitar tabs (or tablature) is much easier than reading standard music notation. Q: If they’re simpler, are guitar tabs less complete? Do they tell you everything you need to know about the music you’re reading as standard music …
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Double picking on the guitar simply means playing the same note twice in the same amount of time. In the next examples the note is first played, then double picked. In Ex. 1 a quarter note (crotchet) is divided in two eight notes (quavers) while in Ex. 2 an eight note is divided in …
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