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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.

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

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 Guitar Teacher from Hell

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With a bit of nervousness and excitement, I took a deep breath and knocked on the door.

At this point, I had no idea that the next 60 minutes was going to be some of the most bizarre I was about to experience as a guitarist.

After a few moments, the door opened, and what I saw surprised me.

Out from behind the door came this guy with long greasy hair, tight jeans, and a big gut – looking like he had just woken up.

 

The blast of stale cigarette smoke hit me in the face as I stepped through the door.

 

“This is going to be fun” – I thought.

This was my first lesson with a so-called guitar tutor who was supposed to be the “best in town”.

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Filed Under: Learning, Technique Tagged With: Guitar teachers, Learning

The Hidden Fingerpicking Killer That Ruins All Fluency (fingerpicking how to)

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One of the biggest frustrations for anyone learning to fingerpick is this…

The annoying thud that you hear when you go to pick a string, only to accidentally pluck the wrong string.

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Filed Under: Fingerpicking, Technique Tagged With: fingerpicking, Fingerstyle

11 Guitar Tips For Beginners

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Today, I want to give you 11 tips to help improve your guitar playing.

Most guitarists follow none of these tips and some follow only a small handful at best.

Take a look below and let me know how many of these you follow.

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Filed Under: Learning, Technique Tagged With: Guitar tips

5 Strumming Mistakes to Avoid

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I had a good lesson yesterday with a fingerpicking student of mine who previously HATED strumming.

Recently, we have made some big breakthroughs with strumming, and now she is starting to love it much more.

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Filed Under: Strumming, Technique Tagged With: Learning, Strumming, Strumming patterns

What’s Beethoven’s Favourite Fruit?

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What’s Beethoven’s favourite fruit?

BA-NA-NA-NAAAAAA.

What a corker of a joke.

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Filed Under: Misc., Technique Tagged With: Beethoven, Classical, funny

10 Simple and Fun Ways to Improve Your Sense of Rhythm on Guitar

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There are three aspects of music. These are harmony, melody and rhythm. Harmony covers things such as chords and when more than two notes are being played at the same time. Melody covers riffs, lead ideas, and anything that you can hum. Rhythm is pretty self-explanatory.

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Filed Under: Rhythm, Technique, Top Tens Tagged With: counting, Drums, Groove, metronome, Sub divisions

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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Filed Under: Beginner guitar, Technique, Top Tens Tagged With: `Minimum Pressure Required`, calluses, classical posture, playing with pain

How to Improve Your Chord Changes on Guitar by Avoiding One Dangerous Habit

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If you struggle with chord changes and find they are slow, awkward and are ruining the flow of your songs and maybe they even want to make you throw your guitar out of a ten-storey building hoping it will land in a burning car, then you will definitely find this post helpful. 

There are multiple reasons for slow chord changes but one of the biggest culprits is one not many are aware of and even those who are, have no idea how to fix it.  In this post, I`ll show you what the issue is, why it crops up and more importantly how to fix it so your chord changes, especially those when changing from G to C, become faster and smoother.

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Filed Under: Chords, Technique Tagged With: Bad Habits, C chord, chord changes, G chord

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