Slap and pop playing on guitar has become very common with genres that like to mix funky and percussive strums into their technique. Besides sounding cool it is a great skill to learn as it involves a focus on rhythm and timing, and it can be practiced along with common chord progressions and scales. Here […]
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By Gary Heimbauer for Guitar Tricks and 30 Day Singer Country lead guitar players tend to be really good at mixing chords with their lead ideas and blurring the line between rhythm and lead guitar. How do they do this? Generally, they are able to do this by having a firm working knowledge of triads
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If you are an absolute beginner on guitar there are a few steps you can take to help with your overall success rate! After all, playing music is not easy and requires some hills and hurdles to overcome so it’s best to take a proper approach. Here are some of the first things you need
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By Shawn Leonhardt for Guitar Tricks and 30 Day Singer Derek Trucks is a virtuoso slide guitarist who has been playing with famous rock groups like the Allman Brothers Band since he was a teen. While slide blues guitarists may have been his early inspiration, he has since added Latin and Indian scales to his
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How to Tackle Barre Chords By Shawn Leonhardt for Guitar Tricks and 30 Day Singer Barre chords are an absolute pain in the fingers! When you are learning how to play guitar, barre can seem like an insurmountable challenge. However, if you approach them correctly and practice them often they will become easier. Here are
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If you would like to learn how to play guitar there are many online courses to choose from, in fact, there are so many it’s hard to know where to begin! However, Guitar Tricks has been providing online guitar lessons since 1998 so it’s safe to say they are a good place to get started.
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Since mid-2021, Guitar Tricks™; a hugely popular online guitar lesson company, has been kindly contributing some fantastic guitar lesson articles on these very pages. How good is that?! Well, it’s too good to pass you by, so I’ve gathered all the articles together where they belong, in a brand new Guitar Tricks™ category, for easy
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By Gary Heimbauer for Guitar Tricks and 30 Day Singer Power chords are at the heart of rock and roll! Bands as diverse as The Ramones, AC/DC, and Nirvana all used them constantly to create many great songs. So what is a power guitar chord? In this beginner guitar lesson, we will find out! A
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Learn these 8 chords, and you can play 8,000 songs! by Steven Kendzorski for Guitar Tricks and 30 Day Singer Learning how to play guitar is an exciting and unique adventure for every beginner guitar player, and there are thousands of videos, articles, and YouTube channels that share different approaches to the craft. While there
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