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Out now - The Ultimate Guide To Strumming - Learn how to strum with great technique, discover the key strumming patterns and unlock the best strumming tips and tricks out there!

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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Filed Under: Learning, Podcast Tagged With: beginner guitar, Learning, mistakes, motivation

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

Halloween Guitar Spooktacular – 4 Easy Guitar Riffs To Scare Your Neighbours With!

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Welcome to this little Halloween Spooktacular of four fun classic Halloween riffs for the guitar. If you want to learn some scary (tongue in cheek!) Halloween guitar riffs, this is the place to be. Each one features a different and very useful technique that will help improve your guitar playing – especially if you are a beginner.

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Filed Under: Riffs, Videos Tagged With: beginner guitar, Film Music, Guitar riffs, Halloween

Podcast #6 – The Importance Of Breathing To Reduce Tension And Allow You To Enjoy Your Guitar Playing More

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In this podcast, I discuss one of the hidden killers of guitar playing progress and why it is so important you spend some time focusing on getting it right.

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Filed Under: Podcast, Technique Tagged With: beginner guitar, Breathing, motivation, posture

Reader Question – Help! I`m stuck in a guitar rut and don`t know where to go next

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In this video, I discuss a variety of ways you can get yourself out of a guitar-playing rut. Many guitarists plod along for a long period of time without realising it.

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Filed Under: Reader Question, Videos Tagged With: beginner guitar, getting grades, Inspiration, motivation, Playing live

Q and A – Five Minutes with flamenco guitar teacher Tomas Michaud

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It`s been a little while since the last Q and A as I have been so busy with new projects such as my new guitar podcast and the new stuff I have coming out (more on all this soon) but here is a really cool Q and A with a really cool guy – flamenco guitar teacher Tomas Michaud. 

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Filed Under: Q and A Tagged With: `Recuerdos`, beginner guitar, Flamenco, Guitar tuition, Interview

How To Strum A Guitar The Proper Way (part 1) – 6 Mistakes You Must Avoid

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Many beginner guitarists don`t really know how to strum a guitar – not properly anyway. They often `fake it till they make it` but unfortunately that can lead to bad habits.

Check your strumming regularly by ensuring you are not making the following very common mistakes that many guitarists make – especially beginners, but often experienced guitar players too. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Rhythm, Technique Tagged With: beginner guitar, Chords, Rhythm Guitar, Strumming

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