Looking for a great guitar piece that will improve your alternate picking, sweep picking, hammer-ons and pull-offs, as well as your fret-hand stretching? This month’s featured song is the perfect technique builder for the intermediate to advanced guitar player.
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This month’s Guitar Accelerator Song of the Month, is a piece that will help beginner to intermediate guitar players improve fret-hand stretching capabilities.
The song we will look at is very short piece called “The Tempest”.
Continue readingFor many guitar players, understanding and performing 16th note rhythms can be tricky and sometimes downright confusing.
The good news is that it doesn’t have to be that way.
Once you understand some simple concepts, you will understand how 16th notes really work. Then with a bit of practice, you will be able to easily master them on your guitar.
In this tutorial, we will cover the basics of counting and performing sixteenth notes.
Continue readingKreutzer’s Study #2 is a great alternate picking and string skipping study for the intermediate guitar player or ambitious beginner. In this tutorial we look at how to play this fun piece on guitar.
Continue readingFree PDF guitar TAB sheet music. In this beginner to intermediate guitar arrangement for “Christmas Comes But Once a Year”, I’ve arranged the piece so you can play it as a chord-melody.
Continue readingIn today’s tutorial, we will look at a quick and easy guitar arrangement for the popular Christmas song “The Holy and the Ivy”. The arrangement we will look at uses just three chords.
Continue readingA Look at Chords in the Kumoi Scale
Now it’s time to dig deeper into the Kumoi scale and look at some ways it can be used in guitar solos.
There are many different ways to determine the chords that a scale can be used with. We will use one of the simpler ways.
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