Double Your Mileage – Change Octaves
One of my mantras is "take what you know and learn to do more with it." I say this a lot because a lot of people get hung up on
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Simple Arpeggio Playing
Simple Arpeggio Playing Over Open Chords
Arpeggios often cause a lot of confusion because I think most people believe they can't be that simple. In reality, an arpeggio is nothing more
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Barre Chord Starter
Probably the biggest hurdle most guitar players go through is learning how to consistently play the barre chord shapes and actually get the notes to ring out.
I've finally figured out,
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Joe Bonamassa On His ’59 Les Paul And More
In this video, courtesy of PremierGuitar, Joe Bonamassa talks about his new album Dust Bowl, and the '59 Les Paul he's been grabbing for a few songs a night. He
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Guitar Vibrato Breakdown
As much as I love my "don't worry about it" approach to vibrato... I've finally come to a point where I felt like I had to show how I do
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The Acoustic Blues Sound Of Muddy Waters
April 4th marks the birthday of legendary bluesman, McKinley Morganfield... AKA Muddy Waters.
Having listened to many of his original recordings, and even more by other artists who have recorded his
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New To Me (and that doesn’t happen every day)
So in yesterday's post I was talking about increasing your skill and technique so that you can lean on it "in the head of battle" so to speak.
Often in music,
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Blues Lead Guitar
The folks over at Guitar World have released their 2010 edition of Blues Lead Guitar in a free, digital format.
http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/newbay/blues_leadguitar2010/
In particular, I like the Robben Ford lessons and the discussion
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Blues Rhythm Lesson – 2 Note Easy Chords
I've often heard it said that "kids should be seen and not heard." It's an old saying that I'm going to change to "rhythm guitarists should be barely heard when
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The Home From Work Blues
Nothing makes me happier as a guitar teacher than seeing a student really "get it" and run with it.
In this case one of our fearless BGU forum moderators, Wayne, took
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