In this tutorial we look at the guitar technique string skipping. You’ll learn what it is, how to perform it and you’ll learn some guitar technique exercises to help you master it.
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It’s time to take the Circle of Guitar Influence much further. In the first part of this exercise we looked at tracing your favourite guitar player’s influences back one generation. Now we will go much deeper with this exercise and gain some additional tools for song writing.
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Here we will look at 2 very powerful exercises you can do to improve your understanding of song writing, composition and guitar solos.
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Have you ever wanted to play those spine-tingling lines that sound super-smooth and oh-so fluid?
The key to playing those super-smooth, spine-tingling passages is to master hammer-ons and pull-offs.
Today we will look at how to perform hammer-ons and pull-offs and a great foundation hammer-on and pull-off exercise.
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Alternate picking is the most common and efficient way to play notes on individual strings. To get started with this guitar technique we will look at a basic and very effective alternate picking exercise.
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Have you ever seen chord symbols in sheet music like D/F# or G/B and wonder what they mean?
Well in today’s post we will demystify slash chords.
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Today we look at additional ways to practice the Hirajoshi scale, a chord vamp that you can use to practice soloing with this scale, and we will look at creating your own guitar solo with this scale.
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