Tag: Ontario
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Pedal to the Metal
One of the best ways to shape your tone and improve your sound is through the use of effects pedals. Even with acoustic guitars, effects pedals can bring out the best of your tone and help squelch sounds you don’t want your audience to hear. There are many to choose from and finding one that…
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The Elusive Art of Songwriting
Good songwriters are few and far between and good ones should be celebrated. Some great pops songs may be simple but writing them is anything but easy.
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Improvising In G: A Major Building Block to Guitar Mastery
The G major scale is a very common scale used in pop, rock, and country songs. It is a handy building block to further your guitar playing abilities.
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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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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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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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Lesson 6, How to Play a Three Chord Song in a Few Lessons, If You’ve Never Played Guitar Before: Learning Our First Chord, the D major
Lesson 6 in our series on how to play a three chord song.
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Buying Guide – What else will you need when you buy a guitar?
Now that you’ve decided to buy a guitar, there are a few things you will need to go with your guitar.
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Putting You Best Fret Forward, Advice for the Novice Guitarist, Part 2
Early on in your guitar playing life, it is important to learn the anatomy of your guitar. Understand how your guitar is made and understand its key components.
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Putting You Best Fret Forward, Advice for the Novice Guitarist, Part 1
So you’ve decided to learn how to play guitar. I congratulate you. The guitar is a beautiful, wonderful and versatile instrument. Guitarists who play well and know their stuff are always in demand. Learning music and learning to play the guitar is something you can keep and cherish for the rest of your life