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Modern finger style guitar has grown in popularity over recent years, but what about fingerstyle guitar lessons? What's the best resource to learn fingerstyle guitar? Exciting players like Tommy Emmanuel, Andy McKee, and Antoine Dufour, have …
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Classical guitar is a beautiful combination of technique, composition, tradition, and passion. If you want to get started exploring the classical guitar, here are ten easy classical guitar songs perfect for beginners. Let's get …
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Who is Bryan Sutton? Primarily known as a flatpicked acoustic guitar player, Sutton also plays mandolin, banjo, ukulele, and electric guitar. He’s played with the likes of Dixie Chicks, Jerry Douglas, Sam Bush, Béla Fleck, Hot Rize, Chris Thile, Tony …
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TrueFire.com is a massive, online center for guitar lessons. It's what Guitar Player magazine has called, "the planet's largest and most comprehensive selection of online guitar lessons." And in the area of fingerstyle guitar, they deserve particular …
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Bluegrass doesn't have to be intimidating. When you listen to legends like Doc Watson and Tony Rice, it's easy to be intimidated by the lightening fast, single note lead lines or the intricate fingerpicking. But much of the acoustic guitar's role in …
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Today I'd like to chat about the style of picking used in gypsy jazz guitar, otherwise known as 'rest stroke' picking.This picking technique is what allows gypsy jazz guitarists to produce such a strong sound on their instrument, and once …
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Today I'd like to share with you a very useful shape. One of the most versatile arpeggios you can learn as a gypsy jazz guitarist is shown below. The great thing about this shape is that you can use it to improvise over three …
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Can I tell you a secret? As a vocal coach, some of my favorite students are guitarists. That’s because without learning to play guitar, I never would have become the singing teacher I am today. I actually didn’t even care about my voice …
GUEST POST - I thought I might offer a few words in this post about a guitar genre that rarely gets the spotlight outside of its own community of players, namely that of guitar accompaniment in traditional Irish music. Now when I say …
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GUEST POST - Learning to sing can be a tricky task at the best of times, but when you also add playing guitar to the mix it's easy for your playing or singing to go a little haywire as you focus on those fancy licks or that high note. This tutorial …
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Here are 30 songs that you can tackle as a beginner. They sequence up from very simple to slightly more complicated. They cover a variety of genres and styles. Most importantly, you'll be playing real music within a very short period of time. And …
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Last week, Reverb.com put up a great video piece with Tommy Emmanuel, where he discusses how he changes strings on acoustic guitar. He also gets into a bit of a conspiracy theory about how the brand of strings you use influences your …
GUEST POST - In this lesson we will be talking about turnarounds. Turn arounds are a staple in jazz and blues playing. Today we’ll be focused on blues turnarounds and how you can use these to enhance your blues playing today! A turnaround is …
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sep2sJobtc0&feature=youtu.be PLAY is Fender Guitar's new online platform for learning acoustic guitar, electric guitar, and ukelele. There are several things I love about Fender's new system: …
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