When you’re just starting out on the guitar, you spend most of your practicing time learning new things. Reading tabs, new tunes, new chords, new songs, new techniques, your first scale, some easy guitar riffs and licks, so on and so forth. By the time you reach an intermediate level of guitar playing, you will […]
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String bending and vibrato are my favorite guitar techniques. The reason for this is that they can make the guitar sound like my favorite musical instrument: The human voice. In this lesson, I’ll give you seven string bending exercises that will explore this powerful technique so that you can, quite literally, make your guitar sing.
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The reason why many guitar players don’t think music theory is necessary comes from the belief in certain myths about music theory for the guitar. While I don’t know the exact origins of these myths, my guess is that the reason behind their existence is that students and players rarely apply music theory to the
These beginner guitar exercises will get you focused on what matters. Are you a beginner on the guitar and confused as to what you should practice and when? In this lesson I give you an overview of the things you will be learning in the coming weeks, months, and years. In today’s lesson, I will
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Before I figured out how to execute an effective guitar warm up I used to either not warm up at all before practicing the guitar or else, play the same chromatic exercises over and over with no particular purpose. In this article I will explain why it is important to warm up before a guitar
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Should a student specialize in one genre of guitar playing or learn as many guitar styles as possible? The answer to this question is to do both. To learn from different genres but specialize in the guitar styles you love most. To learn techniques and get ideas from great guitar players in different styles, but
Guitar solos – whether learned, composed, or improvised – can be among the most fun and rewarding endeavors on the instrument. From advanced rock’s virtuoso technical wizardry, to melodic minimalist simplicity, and along the whole spectrum of tasteful lead guitar phrasing in between, soloing and improvisation are arguably the most important parts of lead guitar
In this lesson on guitar strumming patterns I explain the basic subdivisions of the beat. To keep things simple, I have stuck to beats split into divisions of two. There are more options than this when creating music, and in this lesson, we’ll explore another group of rhythmic patterns: Guitar triplets. This will be done
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When playing the guitar, your right and left hands should be in sync. To be able to do so fluently, you must train your right and left hands separately as well as together. Today’s guitar finger exercises will be focused on training your left hand. Though you will still use your right hand to strike
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