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Beginner Guitar Lessons

What is the best way to learn power chords?

January 10, 2008

Power chords are a simple way to learn all the chords on the guitar. What, all the chords? Well not exactly all the chords, but A-G# chords can be learned by just using power chords. Here’s the shape to learn. Now that you’ve learned the shape.  Simply move the chord up and down the strings [...]

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Learning guitar now: What is my first step?

January 9, 2008

This is a question many people will ask during the course of this year, and while there is no definitive answer about what you should learn on the guitar first, there are certain things to learn that will make the guitar easier. I created Learning Guitar Now and from my experience, here are 3 things [...]

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Learning how to use hammer ons and pull offs in your guitar playing.

January 8, 2008

Does your guitar playing lack that spice, and energy of favorite guitarists? Well one way to put more spice in your playing, is to use Hammer ons and Pull offs. First let’s talk about how to perform a Hammer on. It’s pretty easy really. Pick one note and now “Hammer” to a note above that [...]

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Learning guitar: 12 Bar Blues guitar lesson

January 7, 2008

So what is the 12 bar blues progression? In a quick answer, it is one of the most common used chord progressions in the history of music. You should definitely memorize this chord progression in all keys. This sounds like work, huh. Well there are shorcuts to memorizing this chord progression that are based on [...]

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Learning Guitar: Do I start out on an electric or acoustic guitar?

January 4, 2008

It really depends on what you want to play. Most people say you have to learn the acoustic first, which is a complete lie! Actually, learning the electric guitar, is far easier to start on, because the strings are smaller and easier to push down. I If you really want to play the acoustic guitar, [...]

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Guitar Lesson: The best chords to learn first, when you start learning the guitar.

January 2, 2008

So what chords do you learn to start playing the guitar immediately? Everybody has their opinions, and they’re all great, but I think in general there are 5 that stand out in my mind, as crucial to learn in the beginning. This is the one of the first guitar lessons I teach to any beginner. [...]

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