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Join the Guitar Domination community for free. It`s designed for those over 40, who are beginners and love to fingerpick and strum their acoustic guitars. If this is you, come join us and learn the 3 most important fingerpicking patterns ever...that will allow you to play 1000`s of songs.

A Long-Term Guitar Plan Versus Short-Term Day-to-Day Practice

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A common issue that comes up is the question of a guitar learning plan. I received this email recently…

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

Question of the Day

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As I wake up and start brewing my coffee first thing in the morning, I like to ask my Alexa to tell me the “Question of the day” which is a bit of random trivia (I do love a quiz). It is fun, and it usually has a few fun bonus questions too. In a similar format, I thought I’d ask you some questions today, a little guitar quiz.

Here we go…

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The A to Z of Fingerpicking (Part 2 – N-Z)

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This is continued on from yesterday, so if you missed that post you may want to check it out. It is the A to Z of fingerpicking, including tips, and today we continue the fun with N.

Here we go…

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Filed Under: Fingerpicking, Learning, Technique Tagged With: fingerpicking, Fingerpicking tips, learning guitar

The A to Z of Fingerpicking

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Here is something fun for you today. It is the A to Z of fingerpicking and there are nuggets of good stuff throughout with tips to help with learning guitar so enjoy.

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Filed Under: Fingerpicking, Technique Tagged With: fingerpicking, Fingerpicking tips, learning guitar

3 Random Thoughts This Monday (Paul Simon, Avoiding Gimmicks, and My Biggest Course Yet)

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Here is another one of the usual Monday posts with 3 thoughts on guitar, music, and life featuring an early record by Paul Simon, my new video course, and more.

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Filed Under: Fingerpicking, Learning, Legends Tagged With: Efficiency of learning, Fingerstyle Arrangements, learning guitar

Why Finding the Perfect Guitar Is a Lot Like Dating

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While it’s easy to find a guide to buying a guitar, many of us still struggle to take the leap. As guitarists, one thing many of us tend to do is get overly attached to our guitars, and often our first guitar.

 

The problem is, most of the time, the first guitar you own is NOT the most ideal one for you.

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Filed Under: Equipment Tagged With: Acoustic guitar, Buying a guitar, learning guitar

How to Build a Golden Gate Bridge in Your Playing

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I’ve got a student, a lovely chap called Ian, who also supports the same football (as in soccer) team as me, which is Aston Villa. Anyway, he is a retired engineer of 65ish who started playing about 18 months ago and is doing great. One of the secrets to his success is his use of his methodical engineering brain in improving his guitar skills.

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

How to Trick Yourself to Play More

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Many of you may be looking for guitar practice tips on how to be more disciplined about picking up your guitar and playing. Us human beings certainly are creatures of habit.

We often take comfort in doing the same things each day and each week.

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Filed Under: Learning, Practice, Practice Techniques Tagged With: Efficiency of learning, Learn guitar faster, learning guitar, Practice routines

How Terminator 2 Can Inspire Your Guitar Playing

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One of my favourite films of all time is Terminator 2: Judgment Day. I remember watching it as a kid with my dad on VHS – I was probably only 8 at the time (and the film had a 15 rating here in the UK, so he might be mortified if he knew I told you this!) It is a great film and in it, there is a scene that reminds me of how it feels to play guitar each day and is a great reminder of the importance of guitar warm-up exercises.

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Filed Under: Practice, Practice Techniques Tagged With: learning guitar, Practice Methods, Warm-up

The Three Ways I Teach Technical Exercises

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The other day I talked about my complete disdain for most technical exercises out there in the land of guitar.

 

Today, I want to give you a tip on how to play the most commonly taught one ever, but specifically…

How NOT to do it and how you should practise it instead.

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Filed Under: Learning, Technique Tagged With: improve technique, learning guitar

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