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By Rick on September 06, 2008  |  Comments 0

Beginner Guitar Lesson 5

In this lesson we get you to apply what you have learned through out the first 4 lessons. We put together a simple practice song for you to practice your chord switching and some basic rhythm guitar.
We organized this song to use all possible chord combinations to help develop your switching skills. Going through these [...]

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By Rick on September 04, 2008  |  Comments 0

Beginner Guitar Lesson 4

In this guitar lesson Don takes a look at your first open chords. Open chords are the foundation of your playing and all beginners should build a strong foundation and understanding of open chords. This lesson will show you how make the chord shapes of:
A Major - E Major -D Major 
 
And you minor open chord [...]

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By Rick on September 02, 2008  |  Comments 0

Beginner Guitar Lesson 3

Moving those fingers around the fretboard, in this beginner lesson we go over few basic finger strength and dexterity exercises that will help you when you are starting out.
 
We call these exercises “Chromatic Warm-ups” and it will be something that you will do each time you pick your guitar up to practice or play. It’s [...]

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By Rick on August 31, 2008  |  Comments 0

Beginner Guitar Lesson 2

Ok so you got the basics of the guitar down i.e. sitting, standing, holding a pick, parts of the guitar etc… Now its time to get this thing in tune! First if at all possible try and have an electric tuner handy, it just makes it a lot easier when staring out.
 
Don will take you [...]

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By Rick on August 30, 2008  |  Comments 0

Beginner Guitar Lesson 1

So you just bought a guitar and not sure where to start… No problem you’ve come to the right place. In this complete beginner guitar lesson we will cover subjects like The Parts of the guitar ,How to hold a pick, How to hold a guitar while Sitting ,How to use your guitar strap while [...]

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Pentatonic Guitar Lesson 1

The pentatonic scale is one of the most popular scales guitar players learn and use. One of the coolest things of the pentatonic scale is that you can’t really play a bad note. This scale is made up of five notes per octave. This scale is derived form playing only five of the seven notes [...]

Open Chord Guitar Lesson 1

Open Chord Guitar Lesson 1
 
In the first open chord guitar lesson we are teaching you the basic shapes of A Major – E Major – D Major. For beginners it’s a must to learn these 3 chords plus, you’ll be able to play about 300 songs with these 3 chords.
 
After working through these chord shapes [...]

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Major Scale Guitar Lesson 4

So far we’ve been working with the 7 short patterns in our previous guitar lessons on the B and high E string set only. Now, let’s see how all of this material relates to the other 7 sets, as well.
 
The guitar is made up of 5 sets of adjacent strings. They are the:
 
6,5 string set [...]

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Major Scale Guitar Lesson 3 – Application

This guitar lesson is designed to help you make some sense of the 1st two scale lessons. The question is “Ok, now I know 7 short scale patterns in the Key of C on two strings, now what?” Well, I’ve always found that the best way to learn something is to put it into context [...]

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Major Scale Guitar Lesson 2

In this next guitar lesson you will be connecting the 3 small shapes across 2 strings:
• 1-2-4 Long
• 1-2-4 Short
• 1-3-4
These 3 short patterns will turn into 7 stackable patterns. These 7 patterns will tie the entire fretboard together for you in a way that would have taken you years to master. This system will complete [...]

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Major Scale Guitar Lesson 1

In this guitar lesson we start off by breaking down the major scale in 3 easy to remember patterns:

1-2-4 Long
1-2-4 Short
1-3-4

 
Once memorized you’ll be able to play the Major Scale in any key anywhere on the fretboard, by using this approach even our most advance guitar students are looking at soloing and lead [...]

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Practical Approach To Practicing The Guitar

This is such a common question asked by our guitar students, and we can help break it down in a simple formula. For the most part everyone is different but what is equal across the board for all guitar players are 4 common subjects for practice and they are Scale Work, Chord Work, Rhythm Work, [...]