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Join the Guitar Domination community for free. It`s designed for those over 40, who are beginners and love to fingerpick and strum their acoustic guitars. If this is you, come join us and learn the 3 most important fingerpicking patterns ever...that will allow you to play 1000`s of 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 Monday (Muscle Memory, Tiny Wins, and Being Accountable)

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Here is another of the weekly posts with 3 thoughts about guitar, music, and life, including tips on muscle memory, celebrating tiny wins, and more.

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Filed Under: Performing, Practice, Practice Techniques, Technique Tagged With: improve technique, Performing, Practice routines

Stop Yelling With That Guitar – Learn About Dynamics

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One of the things that I love about music is the power of “dynamics”. Using dynamics in guitar playing is about having the ability to play soft and loud, and at varying volumes in between.

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Filed Under: Learning, Practice, Technique Tagged With: Guitar technique, learning guitar, Practice Methods

The A to Z of Fingerpicking (Part 2 – N-Z)

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This is continued on from yesterday, so if you missed that post you may want to check it out. It is the A to Z of fingerpicking, including tips, and today we continue the fun with N.

Here we go…

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Filed Under: Fingerpicking, Learning, Technique Tagged With: fingerpicking, Fingerpicking tips, learning guitar

The A to Z of Fingerpicking

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Here is something fun for you today. It is the A to Z of fingerpicking and there are nuggets of good stuff throughout with tips to help with learning guitar so enjoy.

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Filed Under: Fingerpicking, Technique Tagged With: fingerpicking, Fingerpicking tips, learning guitar

The Most Misunderstood Word in the Guitar World

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There is a word that often gets used wrongly in the world of guitar playing and guitar exercises. Is it “vibrato”, “legato” or even “ostinato”? Nope, it is far simpler and if you are not careful, this word can send you down a rabbit hole, like Alice looking for the pesky white rabbit. The word is… “technique”.

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Filed Under: Practice, Practice Techniques, Technique Tagged With: Good technique, guitar techniques, improve technique

3 Random Thoughts This Monday (Tuning By Ear, My Severed Finger Injury, the New Technique Book)

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The last few Mondays I shared a post with 3 random thoughts about guitar, music, and life. So far, they have gone down well, so here is another covering injuries, tuning guitar by ear, and more…

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Filed Under: Learning, Technique Tagged With: Guitar technique, improve technique, tuning

The Three Ways I Teach Technical Exercises

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The other day I talked about my complete disdain for most technical exercises out there in the land of guitar.

 

Today, I want to give you a tip on how to play the most commonly taught one ever, but specifically…

How NOT to do it and how you should practise it instead.

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Filed Under: Learning, Technique Tagged With: improve technique, learning guitar

My Three Ways to Practise Fretting Hand Technical Exercises

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There are a lot of technical exercises out there in the land of learning guitar.

 

Most are too complex and too intricate to be beneficial to most guitarists, beginners, and intermediates alike…

Especially when guitarists do them the way most people teach them.

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Filed Under: Fretboard, Learning, Technique Tagged With: Fretboard, Guitar technique, learning guitar

Why Fingerstyle 101 Costs Less Than a Pack of Good Strings (And Why I’ll Probably Never Sell Anything This Low Ever Again)

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A fair few of you have asked about why my Fingerstyle 101 book is so inexpensive but why my membership programme is pricier in comparison.

Good question.

The answer is simply because the membership is for the people who are dedicated, passionate, want more direct support, enjoy quizzes/challenges, and…

Want to improve faster than they would otherwise. (The membership is actually pretty reasonable in price and much cheaper than lessons).

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

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