It’s quite common for guitar players to get stuck in a pentatonic rut. All your guitar solos start to sound the same. The good news is there are many ways to break out of this pentatonic rut. We look at one here…
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Rhythm guitar playing is a crucial skill for all guitarists. Here we will look at 7 great ways to improve your rhythm guitar playing.
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A basic understanding of rhythm is crucial for all guitar players. This is true whether you play guitar for pleasure, or have much loftier goals.
When you don’t have the basics of rhythm down, you will find it much harder to play songs than it needs to be.
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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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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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