Guitar Practice Checklist: The Top 10 Things You Must Have to Not Waste Guitar Practice Time

Guitar Practice Checklist

One of the keys to getting the most out of your practice sessions is to make sure you don’t waste any of valuable practice time. Here is checklist to help save you time…

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Guitar Solos: Using a Cool Hybrid Pentatonic Scale to Add Variety to Your Own Guitar Solos

hybrid pentatonic scale fingering 1

It’s quite common for guitar players to get stuck in a pentatonic rut. All your guitar solos start to sound the same. The good news is there are many ways to break out of this pentatonic rut. We look at one here…

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Guitar Tutorial: Basics of Rhythm Explained

breakdown of meter

A basic understanding of rhythm is crucial for all guitar players. This is true whether you play guitar for pleasure, or have much loftier goals.

When you don’t have the basics of rhythm down, you will find it much harder to play songs than it needs to be.

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Guitar Lesson: A Great Guitar Technique Building Song

F major scale 5th position

Today we will apply alternate picking, sweep picking and string skipping guitar techniques to a fun bluegrass piece from the 1800’s called “Jack Lamson’s Hornpipe”.

This piece offers quite a lot for guitar players. As I mentioned, the song is fun to play and works well at all tempos.

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