A Fun Way to Improve Your String Skipping and Alternate Picking Technique

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Looking for a fun electric or acoustic guitar song, that will improve your alternate picking and string skipping technique?  Then you’ve come to the right place. In today’s tutorial we will look at a pick-style guitar arrangement for J.S. Bach’s … Continue reading

How to Play Scotland the Brave on Guitar

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Here’s a quick walk through for Scotland the Brave in guitar tab, chords and standard notation. To make the chords easy for the beginning guitarist, I’ve transcribed the song in the key of A major.

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Want to Play Better Country, Rock, Blues, Folk, or Jazz Guitar?

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Want to play better guitar? Whether you play country, rock, folk, blues, or jazz, here’s a fun song that sounds great on guitar and will help improve your overall guitar technique. This piece, called the “City of Savannah Hornpipe”, covers … Continue reading

What is a Sus 4 Chord and How is it Played on Guitar?

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You’ve probably seen the chord symbol D sus 4 in many popular guitar songs. But what does this really mean?

Let’s start by looking at what a chord really is.

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Lead Guitar Solos: 5 Tips for Creating Your Own Unique Guitar Solos

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How to Solo on Guitar. One of the biggest questions I get from guitar students is, “How do I get my own style?” Here are 5 tips for getting started on creating your own unique guitar style.

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Can Guitar Music Theory Destroy Music for Pleasure?

If you really understand guitar music theory and how to apply music theory to guitar, are you forced to analyze everything you listen to, or can you shut it off whenever you want?

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7 Reasons Why You Should Learn and Master Guitar Scales

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You’ve heard that you should learn to play guitar scales, but let’s be honest…you would rather play your favourite guitar songs instead of playing boring old guitar scales.

So is it really worth investing some of your limited practice time into learning and mastering guitar scales?

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