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3 Random Thoughts This Monday (Beautiful Setlists, Fun Guitar Songs, and an Announcement)

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Here are this week’s 3 random thoughts on guitar, music, and life, including fun guitar songs, plus a big announcement, but more on that in a moment.

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Filed Under: Beginner guitar, Practice, Songs Tagged With: beginner guitar, Beginner songs, Fingerstyle, Fingerstyle Arrangements, Practice, practicing songs, songs

3 Random Thoughts This Monday (January Blues, Learning as a 5-Year-Old, and Improving Your Fretting Hand)

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It’s Monday again, so here are 3 more of my random thoughts on guitar, music, and life, including how to beat the January blues, how to improve your fretting hand, and more.

Enjoy…

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Filed Under: Beginner guitar, Practice, Practice Techniques, Technique Tagged With: enjoying the journey, Good technique, Practice Methods

3 Random Thoughts This Tuesday (Keyboards, Musical Skills, and Inspiring Others)

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Here is another of the weekly posts with 3 thoughts about guitar, music, and life. As it was my son Archie’s 5th birthday yesterday, this week’s post is a special one based around 3 useful things I have learnt from him, including how to inspire others, how to develop musical skills, and more.

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Filed Under: Beginner guitar, Learning, Practice Tagged With: Inspiration, Learning, Musicality

18 Things That Bug Me in the World of Guitar Playing

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Recently, I posted a short five-part series of Facebook posts about all the things that bug me as a teacher in the world of guitar tuition.

 

It is not too serious, you may or may not agree with all of these, but either way, there are some useful pointers for things to watch out for, and some of these will give you a bit of insight into my mindset from a teaching perspective.

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The 6 Deadliest Fingerpicking Mistakes (And a Fun Little Test)

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Below are 6 of the most commonly made fingerpicking errors I see on a day-to-day basis with students.

Take a look and see how many of these you make.

Be honest with yourself, as these 6 can crush progress faster than Bigfoot treading on a greenfly.

 

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Filed Under: Beginner guitar, Fingerpicking, Technique Tagged With: beginner guitar, Beginner technique, fingerpicking, Fingerstyle

The “Spelling Bee” Game for Learning Notes on the Fretboard Faster

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Most of you know how important it is to eventually learn the notes on the fretboard, but most guitarists struggle with it.

Over the years, I have had some really good success with students here, mainly by using games, quizzes, and tests to help them learn it and remember it faster.

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10 Tips on How to Improve Your Beginner Guitar Technique to Reduce Pain and Play with More Freedom

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Today, I want to start off a new series of my top ten tips for all the important aspects of guitar playing. Each lesson I’ll send you ten quick but very powerful tips that will help you with a specific subject so you can make improvements in this area and get past the most frustrating hurdles on the guitar. Today, it is… guitar technique.

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12 Stunning, Classic Beginner Guitar Songs Which Are Ideal for the Beginner Acoustic Guitarist!

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If you have ever struggled to find a good list of beginner guitar songs for acoustic guitar (along with the complete tutorial on how to play them), then this post is for you. 

Today, I will share with you some of my favourites and simply the best (no, that Tina Turner classic is not on the list!) beginner guitar songs for the acoustic guitarist along with the complete video lesson on how to play them. 

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5 Fun And Simple Guitar Lessons For Kids (even adults/big kids!)

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Serious guitarist iz serious by Frédéric de Villamil, licensed under (CC BY-SA 2.0)

 

In this post, I want to give you some guitar lessons for kids so you can share your guitar skills with the kids or grandkids in your life. This will allow you to share the joy of your guitar playing with a loved one and as a bonus, improve your knowledge and skills at the same time. Everyone’s a winner!

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Filed Under: Beginner guitar, Learning Tagged With: Kids, nursery rhymes, Semi-chords, Ukulele

3 Critical Factors That Will Help You To Be A Happier, More Successful and More Efficient Guitarist

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There are three key factors that will define how happy, successful and efficient you are at learning to play the guitar, especially if you don’t have a teacher and therefore you effectively teach yourself guitar.

In this post, you will learn what they are, how important they are to your success and why only you can control these factors.

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Filed Under: Beginner guitar, Learning Tagged With: Elite Guitarist, Guitar teachers, Learning, practicing, YouTube

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