Category: Guitar Lessons
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Learning Guitar In Adulthood: Tips and Strategies
By Gary Heimbauer for Guitar Tricks and 30 Day Singer If you’ve recently embarked on the journey of learning to play guitar as an adult, you might be facing unique challenges and wondering how to approach this wonderful instrument. Whether you’re in your 40s, 50s, 60s, or beyond, it’s never too late to enjoy the…
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What is Slap and Pop?
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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6 steps to learning jazz guitar improvisation
Learning to improvise well on the guitar is the holy grail for most guitarists. Here Zac Green from popular music blog ZingInstruments.com introduces us to his 6 steps to learning jazz guitar improvisation. Enjoy. Anyone familiar with the dulcet tones of Wes Montgomery or Pat Metheny will know that Jazz Guitar is a law (and…
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Beginner Guitar Lesson 1: Where do I Start?
Check out my latest YouTube video on guitar for the absolute beginner. If you’ve been playing for a while, it’s sometimes hard to go back to the very beginning, to break old habits. But say you were starting again or for the first time? Where exactly do you start? Check out the video below and…
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Why Learning to Play Other Instruments Will Make You a Better Guitarist
It might seem strange to suggest that mastering the trumpet would help you to become a better guitarist, but the honest truth is that there are plenty of reasons why improving your musical repertoire can and will help you to become a better guitarist – and musician – overall. So, if you want to understand…
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Country Double Stop Riff
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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First Things To Learn On Guitar
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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How to improvise better solos on the guitar
Thoughts, advice and demonstrations on Guitar solo improvisation from tunein-toneup.com Why do I love playing the guitar so much? Mainly because the guitar is an instrument, a tool, which I use to express myself and hope to make the listener feel something. My voice. As Maya Angelou said: People will forget what you said. People…
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How To Play Guitar Like Derek Trucks
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…
