I have made the case before and I continue to believe that the CAGED System is one of the best methods for learning the guitar neck. If you want to know why then read our article here What Is The CAGED System? Based on my experience as a player, teacher, and a student of the …
The CAGED System is one of the most popular and effective ways to learn chords on the guitar. This five-pattern system is also a very helpful tool in learning keys, scales, and the entire neck in general. It assists in the training of a musician’s ear and transposing music, which is to say how to …
Learning guitar can be a frustrating experience, in fact so much so that I have written a few articles around the subject in previous months. For example, I wrote 11 Tips To Beat Guitar Learning Frustration, and within that article there are 3 tips that are particularly apt for this month of my learning. They …
I became a professional guitarist almost by default. I am a class-A guitar nerd, obsessed with the guitar in such a way that there was no other course of action but to play and be around guitars for a living. I love not only playing guitars but just looking at them as pieces of art. …
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This month my guitar progress has been all about one song, well, mainly. One song that has taken me 25 hours to learn to play all the way through. To make you aware, I practice between 20 and 25 hours a month on average so this was pretty much one whole month of practice for …
When I started to learn to play acoustic guitar there were so many songs that I wanted to learn but every time I went to learn one that I found on YouTube they ended up being more complicated than I had hoped. This was frustrating and off-putting at the same time. I ended up trying …
It was found in a survey by fender that 90% of guitar players quit in their first year of learning. That is an incredibly high percentage and just goes to show that learning guitar isn’t easy. It requires patience, self-discipline, time and above all, regular practice. I know this first hand as I have been …
Before I began learning guitar exclusively online, this is a question that I had. I doubted that it was possible to learn guitar online because my mind was still stuck on the idea of a traditional course of learning with a guitar instructor or maybe a mix between the two. It turns out I was …
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I have asked this question to myself many times over the last 6 months. Having just achieved a milestone and completed an online beginner course I thought it would be useful to provide an answer for those of you feeling the frustration. Learning guitar has many obstacles to overcome, none more so than when you …
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Sore fingers is a reality when learning to play the guitar. Heck, sore fingers is a reality for seasoned veterans who have sanded their calluses down to the bone from 5 straight nights of three to four hour shows. The biggest difference facing the beginner is that sore fingers can be very discouraging. I see …
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