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How To Play Guitar part 1

How to play guitar video series, part 1! In this video series I explain how to play guitar using chords that eventually become barre chord shapes, pentatonic and modal scales. However, this all starts with just 10 simple open position chords. This means that your ability to understand the guitar relies completely on you learning [...]

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Intermediate Guitar Lesson 1

Your first Intermediate Guitar Lesson! The beginner guitar lessons dealt with beginner songs and exercises, your main focus was: Get playing Start using a capo Basic chromatic exercises to a click Read about chord progressions Build second guitar parts This should have brought you to a place where you felt more comfortable with strumming and [...]

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Music Theory Lessons

Music Theory Lessons – Intro As a guitar player you might have learned open position chords, the minor pentatonic and maybe even the major pentatonic scale shapes. If so, you are at the classic next barrier of starting to practice the modes and arpeggios. Up until now you didn’t really need music theory at any [...]

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Beginner Guitar Lesson 13

Wonderwall chord extensions The most obvious way to move around the verse of Wonderwall chords would have been: VI – II – V – I. An outrageous number of hits have done so. The way that progression could have moved would have been in line with the concept of the the cycle of 4ths. This [...]

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Beginner Guitar Lesson 12

Time Of Your Life 2nd guitar part As you might know by now, I’m not into parrot guitar. You copying what I or someone else do might be a good starting point, but if you really want to learn guitar, you have to come up with parts, be creative and start arranging. As a guitarist [...]

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