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Guitar injuries: listen to Steve Vai

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Learn about guitar injuries from the great Steve Vai along with information from the Berklee College of Music. Guitar injuries are serious.

Published March 13, 2021
Categorized as Learn Guitar, Musings Tagged Berklee College of Music, guitar injuries, hand injuries, Ibenez guitar, Knapsack, Steve Vai

Minor pentatonic scale magic

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Learn the minor pentatonic scale and how you can quickly begin to use it for lead guitar lines and solo improvisations. Master all five boxes.

Published March 10, 2021
Categorized as Guitar instruction, Learn Guitar, Music theory Tagged guitar solos, improvisation, lead guitar

Are guitar tabs easy?

Guitar with superimposed tabs to convey a sense of the question are guitar tabs easy

New guitarists want to know if guitar tabs are easy. But a better question asks, whether easy or not, should you use tab to learn guitar?

Published March 8, 2021
Categorized as Learn Guitar, Musings Tagged Guitar, guitar lessons, Guitar tabs, learn guitar, Tablature

How to play beginner guitar: five things I wish someone had told me

Friend teaching how to play beginner guitar

Want to avoid five mistakes that will hold you back from learning how to play beginner guitar? Here are five no one told you about.

Published March 4, 2021
Categorized as Learn Guitar, Musings Tagged confidence, guitar teaching, guns n roses, learn guitar, proper posture, stevie ray vaughn

What is the pentatonic scale: a complete exploration

Fingers on guitar with pentatonic scale beneath

Thoroughly learn what the pentatonic scale is and how to use if to play lead guitar lines, solos, and improvisations.

Published March 2, 2021
Categorized as Guitar instruction, Learn Guitar Tagged ancient instruments, Guitar, guitar solo, improvisation, lead guitar, music theory, relative minor

Learn to play guitar YouTube style

computer screen with teacher helping to learn to play guitar YouTube style

Many guitar teachers offer to help you learn to play guitar YouTube style. But lessons can be disorganized and an inefficient way to learn.

Published February 22, 2021
Categorized as Guitar instruction, Learn Guitar, Musings Tagged Guitar, online course, youtube

How do I play A on guitar?

Teacher pointing to note on a guitar

Discover how to find both the note and the chord A on guitar. It seems simple, but it gets more complicated quickly. Master it here.

Published February 20, 2021
Categorized as Guitar instruction, Learn Guitar Tagged bar chords, barre chords, Chords, Guitar, guitar tuning, intervals, Notes, standard tuning

What does relative minor mean and why does it matter?

dad and son

Learn the power of the relative minor in music. Learn what it means, how to find it for any major key, and why it’s important to understand.

Published February 17, 2021
Categorized as Music theory Tagged flats, key signature, major key, major scale, minor key, minor scale, natural, natural minor, root chord, root note, scale degrees, scale root, sharps

How to never ask “What chord is this” again

hand on guitar

Learn techniques to help you answer the question, “What chord is this?” for yourself. You can learn to answer the question quickly and easily.

Published February 16, 2021
Categorized as Guitar instruction, Learn Guitar, Music theory Tagged chord inversions, Chords, ear training, Guitar, guitar chords, major scale, major seventh, music theory

The major scale on the guitar…it’s everywhere

Close up of hands on a guitar

Learn another way to play the major scale on the guitar while navigating from the low register to high.

Published November 13, 2020
Categorized as Guitar instruction, Learn Guitar, Music theory Tagged guitar instruction, major scale

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