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Dan, I LOVE Your Suggestion of Learning to Play…

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I got a nice email from Curtis the other day regarding open chords…

“Dan,

I LOVE your suggestion of learning to play the series of open chords and changes with the last three fingers, and NOT the Index finger. 

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Filed Under: Chords, Learning, Practice Techniques Tagged With: Barre Chords, guitar practice, learning guitar, Open chords

The Map of Your Guitar Playing World

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As I discussed recently, there are two crucial aspects of guitar playing which are key to creating a guitar learning plan and being successful.

These are:

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Filed Under: Learning, Practice, Practice Techniques Tagged With: Goal setting, guitar practice, Learning to play guitar

A 30-Second Eye-Opening Guitar Exercise

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There are a lot of things you can fix in your guitar playing with just some small tweaks, but some of these are left out of beginner guitar exercises. There are also a lot of things you can do which don’t yield much gain.

Although not a miracle cure, here is a little eye-opening guitar exercise that will help you if you lack control in your fretting hand fingers.

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Filed Under: Practice, Practice Techniques Tagged With: Beginner technique, guitar practice, Practice Methods

A Strange Question

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I got this email the other day, with a strange, but common question.

 

“Hi Dan, your address, Halesowen, was near Birmingham (UK) last time I looked, but you quote prices in dollars. Why?

Regards,

Alex”

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Filed Under: Practice Techniques Tagged With: Beginner technique, guitar practice

7 Tips to Give You a Quick Blast of Motivation

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Ah, motivation, that old chestnut which often trips us guitar players up.

“When the going gets tough, the tough get going,” as the Billy Ocean song goes, but…

Sometimes, you may feel like doing any old chore before you get going to play your guitar.

It happens to us all.

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Filed Under: Learning, Practice, Practice Techniques Tagged With: Efficiency of learning, guitar practice, motivation

3 Random Thoughts This Wednesday (the Van Morrison Protest Song, Baseball, and One Practice Habit to Avoid)

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Last week I shared a post with 3 thoughts about guitar, music, and life, and it went down well, so here is another. Three things I have noticed this week, from the new song Van Morrison wrote to a common practice habit it’s time to break. I hope you enjoy…

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Filed Under: Legends, Practice, Practice Techniques Tagged With: enjoying the journey, guitar practice, productive practice

3 Random Thoughts This Tuesday

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I’m thinking of starting a new little feature of three things that relate to guitar playing in some sort of way, such as three guitar playing tips, and doing this each week.

It could be fun and hopefully, it will help you in a few ways as well as give you some tips and insights into what has been happening in my life and teaching studio lately.

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Filed Under: Practice, Practice Techniques Tagged With: guitar practice, Guitar tips, quick tips

The Surprising Things I Learnt Over the Years Teaching Fingerpicking

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My brand new paperback book, Fingerstyle 101 is out now on Amazon, but did you know this is a huge re-write of a book I first wrote 5 years ago?

Well, in this time I have learnt, developed, and expanded my teaching in the following 7 critical areas, and I want to share these insights with you…

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Filed Under: Fingerpicking, Learning, Practice Techniques Tagged With: Beginner technique, fingerpicking, Fingerstyle, guitar practice

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