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Joshua Olivieri here, fellow guitar enthusiasts! Today I’ll be helping you learn an important aspect about guitar: split chords. This is a critical aspect of the guitar, as split chords are not at all uncommon, D/F# being the most used out of them all. To begin learning these unique chords, you must first understand what …
Remember those times when you’re sitting back, kicking your legs up, and listening to your favorite radio station? Then all of a sudden, that great song comes on with that beautiful melody in the beginning that sticks in your head more than the lyrics do. As guitarists, we’ve all been there, haven’t we? Hello, this …
Music is a wonderful thing, isn’t it? No matter what your taste or mood is, there is a song out there for you. And if you disagree, I will just say that I am about the pickiest listener there is, but I soon found my Spotify playlist titled “my favorites” filled with over 80 songs. …
Playing guitar is one of the most popular instruments for this reason: you can be in separate worlds depending on what you like to play. You can swallow yourself in heavy lyrics and rhythms with the electric guitar, or soothe yourself with beautiful melodies with the acoustic guitar. Lets look into the Best Acoustic Guitar …
Hey y’all, Crawford Smith here from GuitarControl.com with a lesson on how to play country-style fingerpicking guitar. This kind of fingerpicking, which is done by people like Chet Atkins, Merle Travis, and John Prine, can make it sound like there are two guitarists playing at the same time, one holding down chords and bass and …
Howdy everybody, Crawford Smith here with a sweet little country lead guitar lesson. Today’s lick showcases a technique that country lead players use quite a bit to emulate the sound of lap or pedal steel guitars. To mimic the fluid sound of steel guitar players sliding between notes, country lead players will often do a …
The main thing anyone needs to keep in mind when trying to give kids guitar lessons is that kids need to be entertained at all times. It’s hard to explain to kids that hours of boring practice will have the awesome result of improved guitar technique. When teaching young kids, you have to keep their …
Trying to make a living as a guitarist is hard. There’s a lot of us out there, and an ever-dwindling amount of money in the music industry. Fortunately, you can make money teaching guitar lessons to supplement whatever you make as a performer. Teaching guitar is a good option because you can charge very nice …
When you are first starting to play guitar, you quickly get the urge to play the songs you love. Why wouldn’t you? Sure, learning chords and proper hand technique is all well and good, but you didn’t pick the the guitar to learn hand positioning! You picked up the guitar to rock. Fortunately, the internet …
Hey, do you have the blues? I’m not talking about the kind you take Prozac for either. I mean the Stevie Ray Vaughn and Robert Johnson type of blues. Its okay, I have them too. Darrin Goodman here with some lessons for you to check out on some popular blues guitar songs so you can …