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3 Random Thoughts This Monday (Five Senses, “The Horror”, and Bad Teachers)

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five senses

Welcome to a new Monday post with 3 random thoughts on all things guitar, music, and life, including, “the horror”, five senses, and bad teachers.

Here we go…

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Filed Under: Learning, Practice Tagged With: Picking hand, Strumming, tuning

Two Reader Thoughts (Making More Progress in One Month Than in a Year)

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more progress

Here are two more interesting emails I have got lately.

Today we are talking Strats and…

…How a student made more progress in one month than a whole year – just by doing one thing.
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Filed Under: Reader Question Tagged With: Reader question, Reader Questions, Strumming

7 Strumming Mistakes I See a Lot

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There are a whole bunch of mistakes I see guitarists make a lot.

Here is a little list of some of these for you to watch out for…

Beware of these strumming mistakes!

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Filed Under: Practice, Strumming Tagged With: Common mistakes, Strumming

3 Random Thoughts This Monday (Music Quizzes, Strumming Fun, and Why You Shouldn’t Overdo It)

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music quizzes

Welcome to a new Monday post with 3 random thoughts on all things guitar, music, and life, including why it’s bad too overdo it, music quizzes, and more…

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Filed Under: Learning, Practice, Strumming Tagged With: Efficiency of learning, Learning, Strumming

Two Interesting Reader Comments and Questions (Repairing a Beat-Up Old Guitar & Learning to Strum Faster)

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Here are two more interesting emails I have got lately.

Hope you find these useful…

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Filed Under: Gear, Practice Techniques, Reader Question, Strumming Tagged With: Practice, Reader question, Strumming

A Home-Strumming Queen

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guitar strings

 

Want to learn to strum guitar ? Cheer up, Sleepy Jean. Oh, what can it mean to a daydream believer and a…

 

Home-Strumming Queen

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Filed Under: Strumming Tagged With: Strumming, Strumming patterns

3 Random Thoughts This Tuesday (Some Strumming Tips, Music vs Politics, and Just Go for It)

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Here is another ‘beginning of the week’ post with 3 of my thoughts on guitar, music, and life, including tips for strumming guitar, thoughts on how music can bring people together, and more.

I hope you enjoy…

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Filed Under: Fingerpicking, Learning, Strumming Tagged With: Fingerstyle, Strumming

If You Have Ever Wanted to Learn Fingerstyle Blues…

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One of the toughest things I found about learning guitar was trying to get my head around fingerstyle blues.

 

Many years ago, I would watch various YouTube videos while trying to learn how to play this style.

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Filed Under: Blues, Learning, Strumming Tagged With: 12 bar blues, Blues, Fingerstyle, Strumming

Strum With Me If You Want to Live

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I’ve had a few of you ask about strumming exercises for guitar recently.

Just like Arnold Schwarzenegger said in Terminator 2, “Strum with me if you want to live”. Okay, he didn’t say exactly that, but for strumming success, give this a go…

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Filed Under: Practice, Practice Techniques, Strumming Tagged With: learning guitar, Practice Methods, Strumming

A Fun Little Guitar Challenge to Measure Your Guitar Skills

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Here’s a little test I want you to do.

It’s something I like to do with new students and also with current students every now and then.

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Filed Under: Chord Progressions, Learning, Strumming Tagged With: Chords, guitar challenge, Strumming, test

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