Guitar Accelerator Song of the Month – Sweep Picking with Fisher’s Hornpipe

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For this month’s Guitar Accelerator Song of the Month, we will look at a piece of moderate difficulty that uses lots of sweep picking.  What you will love about this piece is it sounds impressive on guitar and won’t take you long to learn.

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Guitar Accelerator Song of the Month: Wohlfahrt Study #19 Arranged for Intermediate Guitar

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Looking for a great guitar piece that will improve your alternate picking, sweep picking, hammer-ons and pull-offs, as well as your fret-hand stretching? This month’s featured song is the perfect technique builder for the intermediate to advanced guitar player.

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Guitar Accelerator Song of the Month: The Tempest

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This month’s Guitar Accelerator Song of the Month, is a piece that will help beginner to intermediate guitar players improve fret-hand stretching capabilities.

The song we will look at is very short piece called The Tempest.

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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

Announcing The Top 30 Most Powerful Guitar Technique Exercises of All Time

Top 30 Most Powerful Guitar Technique Exercises of All Time

Very few guitar players know the secrets of how to practice for maximum results. Most players that know these secrets want them to remain TOP SECRET! Until now…

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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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