Guitar dynamics is a very important yet often overlooked aspect of guitar playing. The good news is that learning how to control the dynamics of the guitar exercises, scales, riffs, licks, and solos that you play is not hard, yet it makes a significant difference in the quality of the music that comes out of […]
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Drone guitar technique refers to the sustained use of a note or a chord throughout most or all of a piece of music. In today’s lesson, I will give you a template to use to create as many riffs as you want using the guitar droning technique. Our drone note will be the open A
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Guitar trill technique is frequently used as an exercise by students starting out, or trying to improve, their legato technique. And while trills do make a good exercise, one shouldn’t miss the fact that they’re also a very expressive melodic ornament you can use in your guitar riffs, licks, and solos. In this lesson you’ll
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In music, playing two or more notes “legato” means playing them smoothly, and this can be achieved in different ways on different musical instruments. On the guitar, the most common phrasing techniques that achieve this, along with slides, are the hammer on and the pull off. In the following hammer on and pull of exercises,
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