Tips for Beginners and Troubleshooting Strumming Problems Strumming Techniques for Beginners A lot of the concepts I’ll be talking about in this post are covered in the lessons I’ve done on other pages in the site, so I will be referencing those. The first thing many people want to do when they learn how to play guitar is to learn …
Guitar Lessons, September 2014
Advice from a Boston Guitar Teacher I found 3 new songs to add to the list of easy songs to show to beginner guitar players in September: Nothing More by Alternate Routes, Bottom’s Up by Brantley Gilbert, and Skinny Love by Bon Iver. Also, one of my students brought in a songs that’s good to learn if you’re starting to …
How Beginner Guitar Players Should Practice, Part 1
Want to learn guitar the right way? Read more . . . This series of blog posts will focus on the psychological aspects of learning guitar. There can be mental blocks that can slow down a beginner guitar player’s progress, and these blocks can be overcome by just being aware of your mental state, and recognizing how they are interfering …
C Major Pentatonic Scales Video
Practice the C major pentatonic scales with simple rhythm guitar The video I made consists of two parts. In the first section, I’m playing the pentatonic scales in C major starting with the position 4 scale at the 3rd fret. Then I play the minor pentatonic scale, then the major, and so on. There are annotations in the video telling …
Free Blues Backing Tracks
For those of you working on your blues improvisation . . . One thing that can really help beginning improvisers is an extensive library of backing tracks that sound good and are fun to play over. This sort of thing didn’t exist when I was a young guitar player back in the dark ages prior to the invention of the …
How To Play The F Chord On Guitar
Help with the F major chord on guitar . . . I remember when I was in high school, a friend of my parents saw me playing the guitar and commented on the fact that he quit playing the guitar because he could never master the F chord. Over the years, I’ve had a lot of students get to the …
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