Guitar Accelerator Song of the Month: Wohlfahrt Study #19 Arranged for Intermediate Guitar

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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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Guitar Accelerator Song of the Month: The Tempest

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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.

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What’s the Best Way to Count Sixteenth Notes? A Rhythm Guitar Tutorial

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For 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.

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Guitar Accelerator Song of the Month: Kreutzer’s Study #2

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Kreutzer’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.

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How to Play “Christmas Comes But Once a Year” Chord Melody

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Free 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.

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How to Play The Holly and the Ivy – With Just 3 Guitar Chords

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In 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.

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Kumoi Scale – How to add a Fresh New Sound To Your Guitar Solos Part 3 Kumoi Scale Chords

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A 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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