My-oh-my, you just have to do everything differently, don’t you? 🙂 If you are searching for “Left handed guitar lessons near me“, I have great news If you are a “Lefty”, IT’S ACTUALLY *EASIER* to learn from a right handed guitar teacher or video guitar lesson. Here’s why: It’s more like looking in the mirror at yourself playing. For many…
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10 Legato exercises that will double your finger strength
Here’s a fun method that I came up with many years ago using legato exercises to dramatically increase the strength and dexterity of all the fingers on my left. I used to have all of my one-on-one students practice this every week. This is another one of those deceptively simple exercises. And if you don’t spend a week trying things…
Harnessing the Universal Consciousness
Beneath everything in the universe lies a form of energy. Even smaller than the atoms and subatomic particles that are perceivable by man’s most recent and powerful scientific discoveries, lies this energy. Within this force is contained the thought forms of everything that has ever been created in our universe, or ever will be. Some call it the Universal Consciousness.…
How to Hammer-on, Pull-off and Trill
HAMMER-ON A Hammer-on is simply hammering your finger down on a string hard enough that it rings-out as if it were picked. A hammer-on can also be done with your picking hand to achieve solos like Eddie VanHalen’s Eruption. Although this is more leaning towards a technique called Tapping. Note: A hammer-on is usually preceded by a picked note, or…
Learning Barre Chords – You are now free to move about the cabin
Barre chords or moveable chords are chords that involve using your first finger to press down all the strings on one fret. Then the the rest of the chord is formed with your 2nd, 3rd and 4th finger. If you think about the “barre” as being the same as the nut, The NUT is the metal or plastic thing near…
Master the Blues Scale – Imagine the possibilities this will unlock!
Learning the Blues Scale in A This is a fun scale to explore. As a modern guitarist of any style, you’ll find it’s the most important scale you’ll ever learn. Here’s why: Generally speaking: A scale is a series of notes on guitar, that are used to play a solo over the top of a chord progression. So, let’s start…
3 Tips that will increase your picking speed by 100% – Upstroke, Inside and Outside picking and String Skipping
1. Learn to start with an upstroke. You should not attempt this until you are very proficient at alternate picking. So why would you want to do alternate picking starting with an upstroke? Simple. It will greatly enhance your picking speed and dexterity. Many times you will be in the middle of a solo, and there will be a quick…
Your first guitar lesson – Part 3
<—— See Part 2 Here is the Chromatic Scale with Flats added. Why are there Sharps and Flats on the same notes of the scale? On a higher music theory level, there are several reasons for this. But generally speaking, when traveling from a low note to a higher note, guitar players use the term Sharp, or ♯ And Generally…
Your first guitar lessons – Part 2
<—— See Part 1 In lesson 2 you’ll learn the notes on the guitar for every fret When the strings on the guitar are played from top to bottom, we’ve previously learned the notes are E, A, D, G, B and E. But what about all the other frets? Generally speaking, the C Major scale on a piano is made up…
Wish I had Known this simple trick when I first started playing guitar…
Improving your picking speed This is the SINGLE most important lesson for an advanced guitarist to learn. Hold on just on one second…… do NOT underestimate how important this simple lesson is!! If you learn nothing else from all of these lessons, this is the one thing you need to memorize. The word for this lesson is metronome, Metronome, METRONOME!…