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Learning How To Play The Guitar - Muscle Memory

By Ricky Sharples · 14 years ago

When we begin to learn how to play guitar, our bodies change the way they work and our brains get connected to our bodies through the new skills we are learning. After a few months ...

Tab For Spanish Guitar - What To Look For

By Ricky Sharples · 14 years ago

When you begin to get the hang of guitar playing, one of the things on your to-do list will probably to get some tab for Spanish guitar pieces and see what it feels like to ...

Country Tab For Guitar

By Ricky Sharples · 14 years ago

Country music is extremely popular and country tab for guitar is one of the most sought-after types of learning materials for guitar players. There are lots of different techniques that you can use to play ...

Beginner Fingerpicking Guitar - Some Fingerstyle Guitar Tutors

By Ricky Sharples · 14 years ago

Fingerpicking guitar is a great way to become a "real" guitarist reasonably quickly. You are playing the melody of a song as well as the bass line and the chord accompaniment. This not only helps ...

Blues Beginner Guitar

By Ricky Sharples · 14 years ago

Any blues beginner guitar player will need to learn the chords and chord progressions that are used in blues music. When you start to learn to play the guitar you will be learning open chords ...

Buying A Fender Stratocaster On eBay?

By Ricky Sharples · 14 years ago

If you are looking for a Fender Stratocaster, eBay is probably worth a browse. Many famous guitar players favored the Strat, so why not try to get this distinguished instrument for a bargain basement price? ...

Classical Guitar Pieces - Greensleeves

By Ricky Sharples · 14 years ago

Of all classical guitar pieces, Greensleeves is the most recognizable to the greatest number of people. This makes it a great piece for beginner guitarists to learn to play because, to friends and family, the ...

Davy Graham - Guitar Hero Of The Folk Era

By Ricky Sharples · 14 years ago

If you enjoy playing acoustic guitar music you will most likely have heard of Davy Graham. Some people believe he is the founder of the world music genre, Some guitar players believe he invented the ...

Teach Yourself Acoustic Guitar

By Ricky Sharples · 14 years ago

Can you teach yourself acoustic guitar? It's a common scenario - you see a guy strumming an acoustic guitar, maybe doing some fingerstyle playing and you think, "How hard can acoustic guitar be?" Maybe you ...

Easy Learning Guitar Chords

By Ricky Sharples · 14 years ago

If you want to learn to play guitar chords you can buy a chord dictionary. These books contain every chord known to man, most of them you will never use. There are two common kinds ...

Easy Classical Guitar Songs

By Ricky Sharples · 14 years ago

Classical guitar is a fascinating instrument to learn. The process of graduating from struggling to get your right hand fingers working to playing bass, melody and accompaniment together will keep you enjoying your guitar practice ...

Learning The Guitar Fretboard

By Ricky Sharples · 14 years ago

Guitar students often focus on learning the guitar fretboard as a task on its own. They feel that once you know all the notes in all the positions, you can get down to the business ...

Acoustic Guitar Flatpicking Techniques For The Right Hand

By Ricky Sharples · 14 years ago

Acoustic guitar flatpicking techniques are components of the language that helps you to speak to your audience. As you do not have the electronic effects an electric guitarist has at his disposal, you are left ...

Twelve Bar Blues Chord Progressions

By Ricky Sharples · 14 years ago

Knowing your twelve bar blues chord progressions is one of the best ways to get a handle on playing guitar. Once you understand the basic principles of blues guitar, you can start to experiment with ...

An Electric Guitar Beginner Tutorial

By Ricky Sharples · 14 years ago

This tutorial is for the electric guitar beginner who wants to skip learning to play chords on a nylon string guitar and go straight to the rock 'n' roll. If your musical tastes tend towards ...

A Free Acoustic Guitar Lesson

By Ricky Sharples · 14 years ago

There are many guitar lessons available on the internet for free. Acoustic guitar lessons often focus on fingering open chords or demonstrate strumming patterns but today I will focus on the right hand technique for ...

Guitar Training Software

By Ricky Sharples · 14 years ago

Guitar training software is of perennial interest to guitar students of all levels. It seems as though the boredom of learning music notation and tabs plus the drudgery of long hours of guitar practice makes ...

Learning A Guitar Solo From Tab

By Ricky Sharples · 14 years ago

When we learn guitar solos, we have the choice between learning the music from conventional music notation or from guitar tab. Although tab was used for all music in past ages it has become popular ...

Learn Guitar On DVD Or Books?

By Ricky Sharples · 14 years ago

Once upon a time, the alternative to guitar lessons with a teacher was learning from a book. Books contain more information than any one teacher knows but they can't lead by example. A guitar tutor ...

Learn Guitar By Ear

By Ricky Sharples · 14 years ago

When you decided to learn to play the guitar you probably didn't know the enormity of the job you were about to take on. The long hours of practice, the learning of musical theory that ...