Tag: guitar
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Guitar Maintenance – Changing Your Strings
Learning to change the strings and cleaning your guitar are relatively simple tasks to keep your guitar sounding good. While there is some skill involved and you do have to know what you are doing, it’s not that hard to learn.
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Images through words
The songs that stand out for me the most are those that tell a story and paint mental pictures of the story the singer is trying to tell. It’s easy to say or to write the phrase, “show don’t tell,” but actually writing a song that touches listeners emotionally, tells a story, and paints mental…
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Learning the F Major Chord
If you are new to playing guitar, this will be your first step to learning barre chords – an essential guitar playing skill. It is a nice sounding chord so well worth the effort.
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My Guitar Odyssey
Learning and playing the guitar is a life time journey. Just enjoy every moment that it brings to you. Whether you are playing and touring in a band or playing for yourself at home, it’s all valid. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
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Learning the A minor and E minor Chords
Minor chords are great for creating mood in your songwriting and guitar playing. Adding an occasional minor chord in the right place and sequence, will add dimension, flavor, tension and character to your music.
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One-Four-Five, That’s the Whole Point of the Series
If you’ve ever heard of the term I-IV-V (1-4-5) song, this is what we are talking about in this article. And G, C, and D is about as common a combination for a 1-4-5 song as you can find.
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Lesson 11, How to Play a Three-Chord Song, If You’ve Never Played Guitar Before: The G Major Chord
This is a continuing series of videos to teach novice guitar players how to play a three-chord song, if they’ve never played guitar before. In this lesson, we will learn how to play the G major chord.
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Five Things You Can Do Now To Improve Your Guitar Playing
Continuous learning in the world of guitar can be an arduous and frustrating endeavor. But if you truly have desire to improve, learn and perfect your craft, don’t despair because there are certain concrete steps you can take now to help you on your journey to guitar mastery.
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Lesson 10 – How to Play a Three-Chord Song, If You’ve Never Played Guitar Before: Learning to Switch Between the C Chord to the D Chord
In this lesson, we see some real progress. Now we are learning to switch from chord to chord, using two of the most common chords on the guitar.
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Five Reasons Why I Play Guitar
When I’ve had a bad day, playing guitar helps me forget what’s gone wrong by focusing all of my attention on my guitar.