Experiment with a guitar pick’s angle to find the best way to hold it. It effects how easy the pick is to use and what sound you get out of it.
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Category: Guitar Tips and Tricks
Best Way For Singer-Songwriters To Draw Attention? Play Quietly
Cast a spell on your audience with a sense of personal intimacy by using dynamics. Use silence between notes, simplicity, low volume. Just like when you speak quietly to a friend they pay more attention to hear what you’re saying. It’s like a secret for their ears only.
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Learning Tough Guitar Solos = Eating An Elephant
How to learn difficult guitar solos: Break it down into small pieces and then “tape” one small phrase to another, one at a time.
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Tab Reading Made Easy: The Basics
Article with tips on how to make reading guitar TAB easy.
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How To Find Notes On Your Guitar By Ear
Use Your Short Term Memory To Find Notes On Your Guitar By Ear.
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How To Instantly Find Any Fret on the Guitar Without Counting
Just take a Drive Down The Fretboard! Imagine the 3rd, 5th and 7th fret dot markers as the lights of a traffic light. Then imagine drawing a triangle from the […]
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Feel the Space Between the Notes
Play a note, or chord, and just listen. Meet that note. Look it in the eye. Hear its personality. Don’t move to another one until you’ve actually listened to the […]
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How to Play To a Metronome? Do it Wrong!
No joke. Try it: Set the metronome to a slow, comfortable pace. Play just one note on each beat. Then speed up just a tiny bit WITHOUT CHANGING THE METRONOME…. […]
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Guitarists, Rather Than Going for What’s ‘Right’…
Music is so much more fluid than we often treat it. When we get caught up in whether we are playing it “right”, we run the risk of not hearing […]
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Don’t Like Repetitive Guitar Practice?
Repetition is one of the most effective tools in learning music. Yes, it can be boring, but it helps you memorize the technical stuff so your mind can be free […]
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