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What’s the Most Confusing Thing About the Guitar?

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A little while ago I asked this question on my Facebook page:

“What’s the most confusing thing about the guitar?”

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A Guitarist’s Cinderella Story

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One of the most well-loved emails I wrote over the last year or so was the one about the 5-Point Musicality Checklist.

The gist of it was basically this…

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A Quick Quiz

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Tomorrow at midnight the special price discount on The Fingerstyle Collection course goes away…

…But before it goes away, here is a fun quiz.

It’s a free little quiz which will test your guitar playing skills, ear, and even your music reading skills.

It’s a very short little quiz that hopefully you’ll enjoy!

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Changing from a G to a C Chord Like Mr Miyagi

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As many of you will know, changing chords from C to G and back again can be really tough.

I’ve taught lessons on this 100s of times and had to really zone in on it with plenty of students.

The problem is most people are told this chord change will “get better, just stick with it”.

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A Haunting Story About a Powerful Guitar Song

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It was 1866, and in a town in North Carolina, a man was about to be hanged.

The man was called Tom Dula and his crime – taking the life of an innocent woman.

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What We Can Learn from the Trashiest of T.V.

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I rarely watch trashy T.V…

…but the other night, me and my girlfriend Sally sat down to watch what was probably the best trashy T.V.  I’ve seen in years.

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A Painful First Two Years of Guitar Playing

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I got this email last week…

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The Focus and Desire to Start Again at the Beginning

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The focus and desire to start again at the beginning

Here is a snippet of a comment I thought I’d share, especially for those of you who have the Fingerstyle 101 BOOK or EBOOK.

It was taken from the VIDEO version of the Fingerstyle 101 course and was a comment left last night…

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When Holding a Guitar Chord Injured a Virtuoso

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Here’s an interesting story.

The other day I was getting out all my old guitar books and magazines and organising them.

I came across the story of Steve Vai and his bizarre guitar playing injury.

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How to Run Up and Down the Fretboard

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Ah, scales.

I don’t talk about them that much in these posts.

Yet they are the building blocks and the backbone of most music…

Practising scales over and over can bore people to tears, especially if you don’t make real music with them.

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