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How to know if Learning Guitar is the Right Move For You

September 2, 2026 / Guitar

Before investing time and money into learning guitar, it helps to understand whether this particular instrument aligns with your lifestyle, goals, and personality. Not everyone thrives as a guitarist, and that’s perfectly fine. The decision to pick up an instrument deserves thoughtful consideration beyond romantic notions of playing campfire songs or performing on stage. Taking

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Playing Guitar as a Business Owner

January 16, 2020 / Guest Posts, Guitar

There’s a lot of busyness in the world today. Ask someone how they’re doing and you’re likely to hear about how busy they are, how busy they’ve been, how much they’re looking forward to the upcoming calm. Owning a business is a busy profession. When you’re the one on the line for everything, taking time

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Guitar: Apps, Technology and Practice

January 28, 2017 / Guest Posts, Guitar, Guitar Lessons, Guitar Tips

Have you ever wondered which apps, software and technology would be best to use in order to best develop your guitar playing techniques and support your practice time? A few years ago, I began to record my thoughts on this topic as the basis of a useful article for others. It is very easy to

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Tune in, Tone up! Free Guitar Lessons Podcast

January 15, 2017 / Guest Posts, Guitar, Guitar Lessons, Guitar Tips

Tune in, Tone up! A fortnightly recording of Dan Davies giving Gary Shilladay advanced guitar lessons with loads of pace, ideas, advice and guitar talk. It’s available on SoundCloud, iTunes and Stitcher and topics include how to improvise over 12 bar blues progressions, some neoclassical shredding ideas, country guitar playing techniques, funk rhythm playing and

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