Learning Guitar Notes Made Easy
If you want to learn the notes on your guitar, it helps to know a few shortcuts. (If you’re completely unfamiliar with the notes on…
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Hybrid Picking Guitar: Combine Your Pick and Fingers
Hybrid picking sounds fancy, but it’s really just learning to hold a pick and use your fingers at the same time. I’ve been doing this…
Hagstrom Viking Review
The Hagstrom Viking is a great guitar for the money. In this review Colin talks about its strong points as well as some things to…
How to Improve Your Strumming: Practice Tips That Actually Work
You can play all the right chords and still sound like a beginner. Nine times out of ten, strumming is the reason. It’s the thing…
Thumb Wrapping Bar Chords: The Hendrix Approach
There’s more than one way to play bar chords guitar players should know about. The traditional approach uses your first finger to bar all six…
John Fogerty Guitar Licks: The Flatted Fifth Riff (Part 1)
John Fogerty is one of my all-time favorites. If you ever get the chance to see his show, don’t miss it. He’s not a shredder…