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Beginner Guitar Songs: Simple 2 and 3-chord Tunes To help you memorize chords better, and practice chord switching, I’ve compiled this list of easy guitar songs for beginners. It’s organized by which chords are used, so you can learn just 2 or 3 chords and get started with your favourite tunes right away. I’ll be […]
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Make Your Own Capo For Guitar (DIY Capo) Today I want to show you guys how to make your own capo for guitar from scratch. I get a lot of questions related to capos: “How do I use a capo?”“What do I do if I don’t have a capo?”“Why do I need to tune my
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Do You Need A Capo For Guitar? I used to think that I had to be able to play everything without a capo. Maybe it was a macho thing – I felt it was a crutch. It’s easy to see where this line of thinking comes from: after all, guitars don’t come with them built
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First Guitar Lesson for Absolute Beginners! This beginner guitar lesson was made with the absolute beginner in mind. This is the ONLY first guitar lesson for absolute beginners that you will ever need! We go over two beginner guitar chords (that sound pretty darn cool) and practice switching between them by playing the “chord switching
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The Easy Way To Play The F Chord on Guitar For most guitarists, their journey begins with some basic open chords. E, A, D, G, C, maybe some minor chords. But then the day of reckoning finally comes as you flip through songs and see it – The F chord. Guitar, up to this point
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4 Tips That Make Barre Chords Easier To Play While there is no such thing as an easy barre chord, however I’d like to show you have to play barre chords easier. With the proper techniques in place (and a little attention to detail) you can quickly master these shapes and start learning easy guitar
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Unlock The Fretboard – Play In Any Key Using Barre Chords (For Beginners) Learning barre chords for beginners can be a daunting task – let’s overcome this together! In Part I of our barre chord lesson (which you can find here) we learned the most common major and minor shapes and we started to work
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Everything You Need To Know About Barre Chords There are no SUPER easy barre chords, however with the correct technique (not strength!) you will be playing all over the fretboard in any key, in no time! Barre chords (not bar chords!) are movable shapes that are usually used to play chords that aren’t available in
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The Strum Slap – Add Some Guitar Percussion To Your Strumming It’s a great way to add another dimension to your strumming and after a while it’ll become so natural to your playing, you won’t even notice when you’re doing it! In this lesson we’ll go over what is commonly referred to as the strum
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The FIRST 3 Intermediate Strumming Patterns You Should Learn on Guitar Looking to move past the basic strumming patterns? “One.. two.. one, two, three, four!” It’s a phrase we’re all familiar with – no air guitar performance would be complete without it! – and yet the proper execution of this rhythmic remark is rarely taught.
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