Stringing your guitar correctly means that your guitar will stay in tune for longer, and sooner after a restring.
How often should you change your strings? It depends on many factors.
Continue Reading →There are many methods for tuning your guitar, all of them good if they’re performed in the correct way.
Continue Reading →Tablature (or tab, for short) has been around in some form or another since the 1300′s, so it’s not a new thing. Reading tablature is quite simple, and that’s why it was invented. It’s all about how something is played rather than what the resulting sound will be.
Continue Reading →Dominant 9th Arpeggios are a great way to get a classic jazz sound. This lesson include the arpeggios, their matching 7th chords and two exercises for practicing the application of the arpeggios in a song context.
Continue Reading →Along with changing chords, the ability to strum well allows you to play songs in a way that sounds recognizable and professional. The five steps to strumming including here will have you strumming with confidence in no time at all.
Continue Reading →The ability to move easily and cleanly from chord to chord lets you play the songs that you want to play and to have them sound like the album. Here’s five different tricks to get your chord changes smooth and clean.
Continue Reading →Many guitar players pay less attention to their right hand than what it deserves. The right hand is responsible for the vast majority of your tone, your clarity and the articulation of your notes.
In this lesson we’ll be looking at the mechanics of the right hand, how to hold a pick and strike a [...]
Continue Reading →Here’s a lesson on beginning the left hand.
This is probably the most important lesson (along with that of the right hand) that you will learn on the guitar. A good left hand technique will give you the freedom of expression and ease of playing that you have always hoped for.
This lesson contains a [...]
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