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Dust in the Wind – Fingerstyle Lead Lesson

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Dust in the Wind Chords

Dust in the Wind – Guitar Chords: Dust in the Wind is a great fingerstyle song from the musical group Kansas. Listening the the song, you hear the strong fingerstyle influence throughout the entire piece. At first glance, this song … Continue reading

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Rhythm Chord Syncopation

Rhythm Chord Syncopation: This is the next in this series of rhythm chord lessons and we will investigate syncopation used in rhythm chords, or adding syncopation to a selection. For those of you who are unfamiliar with this term, syncopation … Continue reading

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Guitar Arpeggios

Guitar Arpeggios: One common fingerstyle approach you should learn is called the arpeggio. That is just a fancy word for playing chords in a rolling pattern and individually rather than a strum. This method of playing chords often involves both … Continue reading

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How To Play Alternating Bass Guitar Chords

Playing Alternating Bass Note Chord Patterns:: In this exercise, we will get your feet wet into what is called alternating bass notes and showing you how they can be combined with chords. Not only is this a bit more of … Continue reading

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How To Play Guitar Chords

How To Play Guitar Chords – Chord Changes: The next big challenge you will find with playing chords is called chord transitions, or changing between chords. In this example, let’s try to move (or transition), smoothly between a G Major … Continue reading

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How To Play Chords

How To Play Guitar Chords – Strumming Patterns: In order to play a good rhythm guitar, you have to be consistent above all other factors. If you need to ponder how to strum each chord as a rhythm guitarist, you … Continue reading

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Easy Guitar Chords

Easy Guitar Chords – The 15 Basic Chords You Should Know: Before we begin the process of learning how to in fact strum guitar chords, lets concentrate on a series of easy guitar chords whereby you can have up and … Continue reading

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Guitar Strumming

Basic Guitar Strumming: Guitar Strumming is often thought of as one of the easiest techniques to master and many guitarists neglect the needed techniques to become a great rhythm guitar player. Don’t get caught into this web of thinking as … Continue reading

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G7th Capo Review

G7th Capo – Review Are you up for a different capo? Once you use the G7th Performance Guitar Capo, you will wonder why you even considered other capo options. By using improved engineering, this device accomplishes what guitar capos do … Continue reading

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