To wrap up this 3-part series, we will look at three additional tips that will help you to learn the guitar on your own.
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In part 1 of this series, we looked at three important tips to get you learning to play the guitar quickly. Now let’s continue with some additional and equally important tips.
Continue readingYou’ve decided it’s time to learn to play guitar. You’ve put it off for long enough.
Now that you are ready, the big question you have is: “what’s the best way to learn guitar on your own?”
The good news is there are many effective ways to learn guitar on your own. The bad news is there are many, many ways that you can waste your valuable time.
Continue readingWhen you are short on time you need to get the most you can out of every guitar practice session, or it will take way too long to learn guitar. One of the keys to this is understanding how we forget things.
Continue readingIn this tutorial, we wrap up our look at 5 overlooked ways to improve your guitar playing. So lets jump right in with a great way to sneak in extra music time…
Continue readingNow that you know how major chords are built, we will look at how to apply the formulas to actual chord fingerings on the guitar.
Major chords are built by taking the 1st, 3rd and 5th notes from the major scale.
A triad is a chord that contains three different notes.
To understand how chords are built, we return to the major scale.
Take the first, third and fifth notes from the C major scale and you will have a C major chord.
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