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Play Guitar Without Looking
Play Guitar Without Looking Does your head whip back and forth between looking at your right hand, then looking at the left, then up at the piece of music your working on and then back again? Everybody wants to become free of having to rely on their eyes so [...]
Learning Guitar On Youtube
Is learning guitar on YouTube a good idea? YouTube as a free video platform offers many opportunities to improve your guitar playing. Therefore, in this article we want to shed light on the advantages and pitfalls of learning to play the guitar with YouTube. Let's start with the biggest [...]
Creating An Effective Warm Up Routine
Creating An Effective Warm Up Routine Warming up before playing is a crucial part of your long-term progress as a guitar player. One of the benefits is that you prime your fingers to make the most efficient motions and use the minimum amount of pressure each time before playing. [...]
Why Technique Matters For All Guitarists, Whatever Your Style
Why Technique Matters For All Guitarists, Whatever Your Style What is guitar technique and why does it matter? The point of having good technique on guitar is to have the freedom to express what you hear in your head.. So that if you hear a fast flurry of notes, [...]
How To Spice Up Your Blues Guitar Playing With Turnarounds
How To Spice Up Your Blues Guitar Playing With Turnarounds Blues is a great style to jam with other guitar players and musicians. It doesn’t matter if you consider yourself to be a blues player or not, with just a little knowledge and know how, you can easily find [...]
How To Avoid Going Down The Rabbit Hole
How to Avoid Going Down the Wrong Rabbit Hole When It comes to learning guitar How long have you been learning guitar for? Are you getting stuck with your guitar playing? Do you read information and feel like you are being dragged down with information that you don’t understand? [...]
The Ultimate Practice Method In Learning To Play The Guitar With A Strap
The Ultimate Practice Method In Learning To Play The Guitar With A Strap In the attempt of becoming a more complete guitar player, many things can totally wreck your growth when you’re not aware of it. One of the crucial things to get right is the ability to transition [...]
The #1 Trick That Drastically Improves Lead Playing
The #1 Trick That Drastically Improved My Lead Playing Regardless of your preferred genre, chances are you’ve imagined yourself playing an amazing solo or melody line at some point! I mean, come on, playing solos on the guitar is totally awesome and a lot of fun, so why wouldn’t [...]
How To Write Your Own Songs Even If You Are Not Advanced
How To Get Started With Writing Your Own Songs Even If You Are Not Advanced Most people think that you have to be really amazing to write your own songs. You hear things like “you have to have natural talent” or “you either have it or you don’t” which [...]
Reasons why your vibratos aren’t sounding as great as they could be
Reasons why your vibratos aren’t sounding as great as they could be A quick introduction for beginner guitar players A vibrato for anyone who doesn’t know. Is a phrasing technique to make a note on your guitar sound super awesome. Well, it does sound super awesome when you do [...]
Why you should NOT quit guitar lessons when your life gets stressful
Why you should NOT quit guitar lessons when your life gets stressful Every guitar teacher knows that guitar lessons are often the first thing that students give up on when their life gets more stressful due to school or work demands, while other activities such as various sports are [...]
3 Major Mistakes Of Beginners
The 3 Major Mistakes of Beginners When you start out learning how to play the guitar, most of the students do not know, what they have to focus on in order to get maximum results in the shortest amount of time. One simply does not know what the consequences [...]
2 Simple Ways To Get Creative With Your Open Chords
2 Simple Ways To Get Creative With Your Open Chords A common trend I see in lots of guitar players as they start out, is that once they’ve learned their open chords, they get bored and want to move onto something else (learn new chords in other positions on [...]
Why are you struggling to encourage your child to practise guitar when there are video games around?
Why are you struggling to encourage your child to practice guitar when there are video games around? A lot of parents express to us that they are struggling with their child practicing guitar because they always want to play their video games. They are also very lovely parents who [...]
How To Create A Groove Using Harmonized Scales
How to Create a Groove Using Harmonized Scales Introduction Many times in lessons, I create a groove for students (using a looper or midi-generating pedal or software) on the fly for them to solo over or practice switching chords with. The advantages of doing this as opposed to using [...]
Comparing How Amateurs And Professionals Jam
Comparing How Amateurs and Professionals Jam Because of the unpredictable nature of a jam session, each participant’s musicianship really comes to the fore in many ways. I have run many jam sessions that were open to the public over the years, and I offer this, not as a be-all [...]
Easy Ways To Create Your Own Chord Progressions
Easy ways to create your own chord progressions When you start learning guitar, most of the times you begin with learning some basic open major, minor or 7th chords. After a while, you expand your chord vocabulary to some advanced or suspended chords by learning from either chord progressions [...]
How I Climbed Mount Everest
How I climbed Mount Everest… Imagine this - you’re at the base of Mount Everest. You’ve got all your hiking gear on and you’re ready to climb. Now just the idea of climbing this mounting can seem pretty like a daunting task. I mean… that’s a lot to climb! [...]
2 Critical Ear Training Exercises You Must Master
Two critical ear training exercises you must master It is very obvious that having a good ear is important for all musicians, but it is especially important for guitarists to consciously train and focus on this. As guitar players we don’t get any automatic help in ear training from our [...]
3 Reasons You Are Not Likely To Blame For Not Being Able to Play Guitar Yet
3 Reasons Why You Are Not Likely To Blame For Not Being Able To Learn To Play Guitar Yet So, you have tried to learn how to play guitar already and it did not go well. Guess what? You are not alone. The reality is that most people who [...]
Why You Should Understand The Fundamentals
More Than A Theory: Why You Should Understand Music Fundamentals On Guitar Over the years of my playing guitar and taking guitar lessons, I have noticed that many guitarists tend to not learn basic fundamentals of music which is a shame since just understanding a few basics can easily [...]
5 Reasons Why Your Guitar Playing Doesn’t Sound Good Yet
5 Reasons Why Your Guitar Playing Doesn’t Sound Good Yet A time comes, in the course of learning the guitar, where the student feels like he can play songs, riffs, licks and solos but for some reason, they don’t seem to sound good. How To Get Started With Writing [...]
3 Benefits Of Learning Music Theory
Three Benefits Of Learning Music Theory There are many guitar players who try to learn independently (without guitar lessons or a teacher) and for some reason take pride in it. Some of these people believe that doing so will create a unique sound for themselves, something that nobody can [...]
Beware Of Trojan Horses
Beware of Trojan Horses I don’t mean computer viruses here, nor literal wooden horses delivered unexpectedly to your door. ‘Trojan horse’ in this case is a metaphor for ‘things which you think are good for you but are actually bad.' 3 Reasons You Want To Play Guitar With Other [...]
The Myth Of Finger Strengthening Exercises
The Myth of Finger Strengthening Exercises Do you spend hours working on finger strengthening exercises but still struggle to make your playing sound musical? Have you bought a grip strength builder only to find it had no effect on your playing whatsoever? Chances are you’ve bought into the myth [...]