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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Guitar Accelerator Song of the Month: Goodbye Sweetheart Reel

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In this month’s Guitar Accelerator Song of the Month, we will look at a reel called “Goodbye Sweetheart”.  This is good intermediate guitar technique piece.

This piece will improve your string skipping and alternate picking.

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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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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

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 Tutorial: An Effective Finger Coordination and String Skipping Exercise to Improve Your Guitar Technique

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In today’s tutorial we will look at an exercise that actually performs double duty. This exercise will help improve your finger coordination as well as improve your string skipping.

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