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Open Position Chords For Acoustic Guitar

25. June 2009

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One of the best things to learn if you’re just strating out with an acoustic, is to learn how to play some open position chords.
These chords can be used to make your own songs or play many popular songs – and they’re also easier to play than barre chords – especially on an acoustic.
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Problems With Playing A Barre Chord

25. June 2009

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Learning how to play barre chords is an important part of progressing as a guitar player.
But many people have problems with learning how to play a barre chord.
It can be difficult at first to keep your first finger pressed against the strings, and to make the strings ring clearly.
You need to apply a little more [...]

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Learning To Play Minor Barre Chords

25. June 2009

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In this lesson we are going to talk about minor barre chords.
If you’ve already learned how to play barre chords, then this should be fairly straight forward.
Basically, the minor barre chords are the same as the major ones, only you use the E MINOR shape, and A MINOR shape, instead of the major shape.
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Learning To Play Barre Chords

25. June 2009

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In this guitar lesson we are going to teach you have to play “barre chords”.
This may not be easy at first – and it is a stumbling block for many beginners.
It requires a lot of practice to get right, and if you’re not used to playing guitar – it may hurt your fingers to some [...]

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Learning The Pentatonic Scales

25. June 2009

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To learn guitar, one of the things you need to understand is scales.
Scales are the building blocks of all music, no matter what instrument you play.
In this lesson we will reveal nearly everything there is to know about using the pentatonic scale.
This scale is the foundation of a lot of blues and rock guitar, too. [...]

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Learning The Blues Scale

25. June 2009

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In this lesson we are going give you a quick blues guitar lesson. The topic of this lesson will be the scale that is one of the most important to blues and rock music.
This scale is called “the blues scale”.
Now if you’re thinking there are way too many scales to learn (especially if you’ve learning [...]

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