How to Make Guitar New Year’s Resolutions You Will Keep

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As the New Year approaches, many guitar players and aspiring guitar players will be setting New Year’s resolutions.

But let’s face it: Most people have a hard time keeping their resolutions.

If there was a simple and effective way to improve your chances of keeping your resolutions and it only takes a few minutes to do, would you be interested?

If so read on…

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Busting the Guitar Music Theory Myth: If I Learn Too Much Theory, It Will Cramp My Style and Creativity

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This is one of the biggest myths in music.

Some guitarists use it as an excuse for being lazy, while others genuinely believe that learning guitar music theory will somehow stifle their creativity and destroy their style and originality. It’s time for the truth…

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How to Avoid the Trap of Making Guitar Christmas Tab Songs Hard to Play

Playing Christmas songs on guitar for your friends and family can be lots and lots of fun.

Unfortunately, for the beginner or even intermediate guitarist, learning to play your favourite Christmas songs on guitar can be confusing, frustrating and time consuming. But there is a better way…

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Guitar Lesson: Making Sense of Common Guitar Chord Symbols

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Translating guitar chord symbols onto the guitar fretboard can often be frustrating and confusing.

Today we will demystify some of the most common ways that guitar chords are symbolized, so you’ll probably want to bookmark this page for future reference.

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Guitar Tutorial: An Effective Finger Coordination and String Skipping Exercise to Improve Your Guitar Technique

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In today’s tutorial we will look at an exercise that actually performs double duty. This exercise will help improve your finger coordination as well as improve your string skipping.

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