About Don J MacLean

Don J. MacLean is one of the world's leading authorities on accelerated learning systems for guitar—with students using his methods in more than 50 countries worldwide. Don is the author of over 60 books including The World of Scales, the Absolute Essentials of Music Theory for Guitar, How I Got Killer Guitar Chops While I Was Still in High School: Confessions of a High School Shredder, 21 Secrets to Learn any Guitar Song Super-Fast, and Guitar Essentials: Chord Master Expanded Edition.

Guitar Accelerator Song of the Month: Devil’s Dream

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This month’s Guitar Accelerator Song of the Month is a popular fiddle tune called “Devil’s Dream”. This piece sounds great on guitar and is fun to play too.  I’ve specifically arranged it to improve your pinkie strength.

This piece also uses string skipping, alternate picking, hammer-ons and pull-offs.

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Guitar Accelerator Song of the Month: Burgess Hornpipe

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In this month’s Guitar Accelerator Song of the Month, we will look at a fun beginner to intermediate piece that will improve your alternate picking and string skipping technique.

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How to Build Dominant 9th Chords on Guitar

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Dominant 9th chords are common guitar chords found in jazz and blues.   Some rock and country styles also make use of these chords. Given their widespread use, it’s important to know how to play them.

In this tutorial, we will look at the basics of how to build dominant 9th chords and play them.

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Guitar Accelerator Song of the Month: Goodbye Sweetheart Reel

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In this month’s Guitar Accelerator Song of the Month, we will look at a reel called “Goodbye Sweetheart”.  This is good intermediate guitar technique piece.

This piece will improve your string skipping and alternate picking.

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What’s the Difference Between Dominant 7th and Major 7th Chords?

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In this tutorial, we will look at the difference between the major 7th chord and the dominant 7th chord and how to play them on guitar.

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Guitar Accelerator Song of the Month – Sweep Picking with Fisher’s Hornpipe

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For this month’s Guitar Accelerator Song of the Month, we will look at a piece of moderate difficulty that uses lots of sweep picking.  What you will love about this piece is it sounds impressive on guitar and won’t take you long to learn.

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