Practicing Guitar Scales And Guitar Chords – The Inherent Value – A Reminder For All

By Michael Fletcher

When thinking in terms of practicing guitar scales and guitar chords, many guitarists tend to overlook the overwhelming value of such practice. After all, some might argue, practicing a guitar scale just for the sake of practicing a guitar scale, doesn’t seem like a very exciting prospect. The same argument, for some, is also applied to learning and playing guitar chords. In other words, why learn a major 9 chord, when a major triad is easier to learn and play? We’ll examine the answer in a moment.

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Awesome Guitar Speed Building Exercise

Today I am featuring another excellent video tutorial from GuitarJamz, that I found on good ol’ YouTube.  The lesson is taught by Tony Brucco. If you aren’t familiar with Tony, I  highly recommend you check out his Website.  While you are there, be sure to check out his debut album “DreamBox”.  You can listen to the  album right from his site or  for a small fee, you can download or order a copy.  Anyway, back to the lesson…

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Learn a New Strumming Pattern & Chord Progression for Acoustic Guitar

Here is another great lesson taught by David Taub with Next Level Guitar.  I feature a lot of videos from these folks and with good reason.  I believe David and the folks over at Next Level Guitar are a group of excellent guitar instructors.  Their lessons are easy to follow and you can tell its not just about business.  They have a passion for playing guitar and a sincere interest in helping others.  That being said, you can learn more about them here by reading my David Taub Next Level Guitar Review, should you want to invest into your guitar playing.  After all, free lessons can only take you so far.

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Practicing the Guitar – Professional Guitarists – Lessons Learned

By Michael Fletcher

Many of my recent articles have focused on information helpful to beginning and intermediate guitarists. These are the guitarists who, generally, struggle the most with musicianship, music theory, and technique. As a professional guitarist and instructor, I’ve logged approximately Forty-Eight years of experience on the guitar, the stage, the road, and in the recording studio. Music, to say the least, has been an enormous part of my life, as I’m sure it has also been yours. Therefore, teaching the guitar and helping others with music has always come naturally for me. I enjoy passing things along.

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Left Hand Dexterity Exercises For Acoustic Guitar

About Bill Palmer

BILL PALMER is a guitarist, composer/musician and an educational author. His style is a mix of rock tones, ambient sound-scapes and jazz-influenced harmony.

Along similar stylistic lines to Joe Satriani and Eric Johnson but with a voice all his own, Bill’s debut self-recorded album “Outlines” (ToneFreak records 2007) has garnered much critical acclaim from both music industry press and insiders and has been described as:

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Build Speed & Strength with these 10 Chromatic Guitar Exercises

By far, one of the most popular and effective exercises for improving your guitar playing are chromatic guitar exercises. They will really help improve your guitar playing dramatically on so many different levels.  Chromatic exercises aren’t very exciting, but the time and energy you invest into practicing these exercises will pay off enormously in the long run.

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How to Build Your Hand Strength for Guitar Playing
One of the most important developments you can make as a guitar player is to build up strength in your hands.  If you have strong hands, you will be able to fret notes easier and play difficult chords.  Now, this is not to say that strong hands alone will make you a good guitar player.  Becoming better at guitar involves a number of different things, but hand strength is definitely an important goal.

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10 Essential Guitar Practice Exercises For Beginners

Becoming a better guitar player requires lots and lots of practice, that much is obvious. But figuring out how to practice can be a bit of a challenge.   I believe you will find the following post very helpful.  Below are 10 awesome guitar practice exercises that you can fit into your daily practice routine.

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Guitar Practice Routine – Chord Change Exercise

Guitar Practic Routine for Beginners

A difficult hurdle to overcome as a beginner guitar player is mastering your chord changes. You must be able to change from one chord to another quickly and without error.

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How to Practice Guitar Effectively

By Robert Renman

An Effective Guitar Practice Schedule
Feel free to practice these things in any order, but always do #1 first, the warm up. You also don’t have to do them all in one sitting either. You can do a few at one practice session, and next time you sit down to practice, you do the other items in the list you didn’t do the first time, etc. Also, feel free to change the number of minutes for each to suit your own needs. Maybe you want to practice for 2 hours; maybe just 30 minutes – it is completely up to you. You can view this schedule as a general blueprint, which you can modify as you like.

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