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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Play Better Guitar with this String Skipping Piece

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Want to improve your string skipping and stretching abilities on guitar? Want to learn a fun song too? Then you’ve come to the right place. Ostinelli’s Reel is an old-time country fiddle tune that sounds great on guitar. This short … Continue reading

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

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

Guitar Lesson: A Great Guitar Technique Building Song

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Today we will apply alternate picking, sweep picking and string skipping guitar techniques to a fun bluegrass piece from the 1800’s called “Jack Lamson’s Hornpipe”.

This piece offers quite a lot for guitar players. As I mentioned, the song is fun to play and works well at all tempos.

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