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5 Fretting Hand Tricks Everyone Should Add to Their Playing

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5 fretting hand tips

As you develop your playing, there are five cool “tricks” you can add to your playing.

I say the word “tricks” loosely, as that’s what some people think of them as…

…But in reality, these are all great techniques…

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Filed Under: Learning, Podcast, Technique Tagged With: guitar podcast, guitar techniques

The Most Misunderstood Word in the Guitar World

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There is a word that often gets used wrongly in the world of guitar playing and guitar exercises. Is it “vibrato”, “legato” or even “ostinato”? Nope, it is far simpler and if you are not careful, this word can send you down a rabbit hole, like Alice looking for the pesky white rabbit. The word is… “technique”.

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Filed Under: Practice, Practice Techniques, Technique Tagged With: Good technique, guitar techniques, improve technique

Bouncing fingers – why it’s one of the worst guitar ‘techniques’ around and how you can fix it

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One of the worst habits a guitarist can have (and one I used to be very guilty of committing myself) is the habit of ‘bouncing’ their fingers off the fretboard. I talked about this briefly in my Ultimate Guide to Practicing Scales but want to expand upon this, as it is a very important subject. 

In this post, you will learn why ‘bouncing’ your fingers can really hamper the way you play guitar, why fixing it will make a big difference to the accuracy of your playing and how to actually fix it.
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Filed Under: Practice, Technique Tagged With: Bouncing fingers, guitar habits, guitar techniques

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