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A Simple Guitar Tip That Made Him Say “Wow”

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a simple guitar tip

I got this little comment on one of the pages in the 7-Day Transformation course the other day, which I thought I’d share with you:

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Filed Under: Beginner guitar, Learning, Practice Tagged With: beginner guitar, guitar practice, learning guitar

3 Random Thoughts This Monday (Frodo’s Guitar Journey, Goals, and Jamming Made Easy)

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frodo's guitar journey

Welcome to a new Monday post with 3 random thoughts on all things guitar, music, and life, including Frodo’s guitar journey, setting goals, and more…

Here we go…

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Filed Under: Beginner guitar, Learning, Practice Tagged With: beginner guitar, enjoying the journey, learning guitar

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

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fun guitar songs

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

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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Filed Under: Beginner guitar, Learning Tagged With: beginner guitar, learning guitar

Your ideal guitar practice routine – How to get better at guitar with a super simple method of guitar practice

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If you have ever wanted a practice routine for your guitar playing, this is it. It is something I call the “To-do” list and it will help you learn how to get better at guitar and get better faster.

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Filed Under: Practice, Videos Tagged With: "To-do" list, beginner guitar, Fixing mistakes, Improving, Practice Methods

2 Super Simple Fingerpicking Exercises To Improve Your Fingerstyle Tone, Accuracy and Patterns

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Watch on YouTube

A lot of guitarists can play a few fingerpicking songs and knock out some fingerstyle patterns but a lot don’t ever do any exercises for their fingerpicking hand. Yet, they wonder why they lack speed, dexterity and agility with their picking hand. This video, featuring two simple fingerpicking exercises will help you with this.  [Read more…]

Filed Under: Fingerpicking, Technique Tagged With: beginner guitar, Fingerpicking Patterns, Fingerstyle, Picking hand

Free Podcast – The 6 Most Common Mistakes That 99% Of Beginner Guitarists Make (And How To Fix Them)

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Happy new year! To celebrate the start of the new year and to help you with your guitar playing in 2019, I have created a very special podcast for all of my Guitar Domination subscribers. This podcast is going to be VERY important for many of you.

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Learn my “Medium” difficulty fingerstyle arrangement of ‘Silent Night’ – with tab, chords and a video play-through

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“Silent Night” is one of the most recognisable Christmas carols of all time, and in my opinion one of the most spiriting and emotional. Here we have the video of me playing it and the tab and chords below so you can learn it too!

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Filed Under: Fingerpicking, Songs Tagged With: beginner guitar, Christmas, Fingerstyle, Fingerstyle Arrangements, Silent Night

Use the “5 x Rule” To Make Your Guitar Practice More Enjoyable, More Productive And Far Less Frustrating

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Today, I want to share with you a really quick but incredibly powerful practice tip that will make learning anything on the guitar faster, more enjoyable, and far less frustrating for you. This is something I call the “5 X Rule” and it is something every single one of my students knows inside out. You should too.

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Filed Under: Learning, Practice Tagged With: beginner guitar, Breathing, Errors, Perfection, Practice

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