Tag Archives: rhythm guitar

Spytunes Story part 9

Finger Style Vs Pick! As much as there is to focus on for the left hand for guitar players as they get to know the neck, there’s another hand that most guitarists rarely consider, which is strange since there are only two! As a guitarist you essentially have three options of how to play the [...]

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Beginner Guitar Lesson 15

Last beginner guitar lesson with a pick! The last beginner lesson that is played with a pick is Rewind by Paolo Nutini. In this guitar lesson we look at how to play syncopated 16th note rhythms at a slow tempo. To fully understand this, let’s have a look at what the rhythm looks like when [...]

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Beginner Guitar Lesson 14

Wonderwall, James Brown and the 1 When playing guitar we choose the chords and melodies with the left hand and most of our focus when learning guitar naturally go to the ins and outs of the fretboard. This is all well and good, especially if we fully understand the composition as the Guitar Conspiracy teach. [...]

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Beginner Guitar Lesson 5

Slow 16th not strumming patterns! Welcome back, it’s time to crack on with guitar lesson 5! How’s your Spyder practice going? You haven’t stopped practicing the chromatic exercises have you? Good, cause that is some efficient stuff if you want to get better quickly. Spyder 1 and 2 are almost identical, depending on your BPM [...]

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Beginner Guitar Lesson 4

Compare Tracy Chapman with Bob Marley! Let’s spend guitar lesson number 4 looking at similarities between the first two songs; Talking About A Revolution and Redemption Song. Both song are in the same key (key of G) and have an almost identical strumming pattern. You may not have realized this because of the difference in [...]

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