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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.

3 Random Thoughts This Tuesday (Classical Guitar Position, Fear, and the Importance of Patterns)

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Here is another of the weekly posts with 3 thoughts about guitar, music, and life, including letting in fear, a question about the classical guitar playing position, and more.

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Filed Under: Classical Guitar position, Fingerpicking, Learning, Strumming Tagged With: classical position, classical posture, learning guitar, Strumming patterns

5 Strumming Mistakes to Avoid

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I had a good lesson yesterday with a fingerpicking student of mine who previously HATED strumming.

Recently, we have made some big breakthroughs with strumming, and now she is starting to love it much more.

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Filed Under: Strumming, Technique Tagged With: Learning, Strumming, Strumming patterns

5 Simple Tips On How To Make Your Basic Guitar Chords Sound Clearer

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If you are a novice guitarist or a frustrated beginner, then you are probably still experiencing some sort of unpleasant noise or lack of clarity when playing your basic guitar chords.

In this post, I`ll share with you five basic tips I give out to students on a daily basis to help them overcome this frustrating part of guitar playing.
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Filed Under: Chords, Technique Tagged With: Beginner technique, chord changes, Clear chords, Rhythm Guitar, Strumming patterns

Reader Question – How Do I Improve My Rhythm Guitar Skills? (With 4 Powerful Tips)

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I recently got a reader question asking me “How do I improve rhythm skills on the guitar?” It`s a great question and one I get a lot so I decided to create a video on it. To find out 4 ways to improve your rhythm skills on the guitar check out the video HERE (and please like and comment). [Read more…]

Filed Under: Reader Question, Videos Tagged With: Drum Beats, foot tapping, metronome, Strumming patterns, Sub divisions

New Strumming course announcement – “Strumming With Soul” official release date

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“Strumming With Soul: Strum the guitar the proper way – with technique, passion and power…”

…will be available to purchase on:

Friday 21st August

I`ll be writing a blog post on that day about all relevant purchase links. Just head to Eliteguitarist.net to order the e-Course.

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Filed Under: Courses, Strumming Tagged With: Courses, eBooks, Rhythm, songs, Strumming patterns

10 of the best simple yet stunning strumming songs every guitarist should know

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10 best strumming songs

Strumming is essential for all us guitarists. There aren`t many better sounds than that of a well strummed acoustic guitar accompanied by a soulful, engaging singer. Best of all, most simple strumming songs require only a handful of chords that once you can change between allow you to play a huge variety of songs. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Songs, Top Tens Tagged With: Beginner songs, Strumming patterns, Strumming songs, Videos

3 simple strum patterns on how to strum a guitar like a pro

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3 simple strum patterns on to how to strum a guitar like a pro

Most guitarists spend a huge amount of time on everything EXCEPT rhythm guitar. They spend way too much time on chords, scales and just noodling around. So much so that they don`t have the time to work on some of the things that really count – such as rhythm guitar.

If guitarists were more efficient, most would be much better players in a much shorter space of time. One area that lacks any efficiency whatsoever is their rhythm playing, and in particular – strumming. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Strumming, Technique Tagged With: Rhythm Guitar, Songwriting, Strumming patterns

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