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Two Reader Thoughts (“I Don’t Want to Be a Star” and Cheese Wire Fingers)

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Here are two more interesting emails I have got lately.

I hope you find the emails and my thoughts useful…

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Filed Under: Reader Question, Technique Tagged With: Guitar technique, Reader question, Reader Questions

Two-Finger Chords and the “3 Pillars of Music”

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Tomorrow, I will be releasing the latest Deep Dive bonus video for members of the Dan Thorpe Acoustic Academy. The technique features a couple of two-finger chords.

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Filed Under: Chords, Technique Tagged With: Guitar technique, learning guitar, Two-finger chords

Stop Yelling With That Guitar – Learn About Dynamics

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One of the things that I love about music is the power of “dynamics”. Using dynamics in guitar playing is about having the ability to play soft and loud, and at varying volumes in between.

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Filed Under: Learning, Practice, Technique Tagged With: Guitar technique, learning guitar, Practice Methods

3 Random Thoughts This Monday (Tuning By Ear, My Severed Finger Injury, the New Technique Book)

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The last few Mondays I shared a post with 3 random thoughts about guitar, music, and life. So far, they have gone down well, so here is another covering injuries, tuning guitar by ear, and more…

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Filed Under: Learning, Technique Tagged With: Guitar technique, improve technique, tuning

My Three Ways to Practise Fretting Hand Technical Exercises

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There are a lot of technical exercises out there in the land of learning guitar.

 

Most are too complex and too intricate to be beneficial to most guitarists, beginners, and intermediates alike…

Especially when guitarists do them the way most people teach them.

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Filed Under: Fretboard, Learning, Technique Tagged With: Fretboard, Guitar technique, learning guitar

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

Q and A – Five Minutes With ‘Guitar Principles’ Author, Jamie Andreas

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This Q and A is one of the most exciting I have done yet. It features Jamie Andreas, who is easily one of the best guitar tutors I have ever come across.

She is one of my favourite guitar tutors out there as she doesn’t bombard people with content and lessons but is absolutely determined to get her students playing with proper technique right from the get-go – saving them years of frustrations that many guitar students suffer.
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Filed Under: Interview, Q and A Tagged With: Guitar technique, Jamie Andreas, Julian Bream, practising

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