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| Guitar For Beginners, rating: 5.9 |
| Easy introduction to guitaring. POSTED: 09/17/2009 - 07:47 am |
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| Speed Basics, rating: 8.5 |
| This is a very basic lesson on how to build and maintain speed with both the left and the right hands. POSTED: 09/15/2009 - 06:56 am |
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| How To Understand Guitar Tabs, rating: 9 |
| This is a beginners lesson on how to understand guitar tabs. POSTED: 08/14/2009 - 08:06 am |
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| Bass Exercises For Beginners, rating: 8.1 |
| This lesson is basically for any beginners that wants to play the bass guitar. I will cover basic exercises for the fret and the picking hand. POSTED: 08/04/2009 - 06:50 am |
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| Babysteps - The Beginners Guide To Guitar. Part 3, rating: 9.7 |
| This lesson teaches Beginners a new strumming pattern, some more music theory, a seventh chord and their second song. It also introduces them to basic guitar maintenance. POSTED: 07/29/2009 - 08:30 am |
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| The Basics Of Intervals. Part 2, rating: 9.5 |
| In this lesson I'll give you a few more quick tips with the intervals in my previous lesson. I also decided to add a little on compound intervals and how they are used. POSTED: 07/17/2009 - 07:17 am |
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| The Basics Of Intervals. Part 1, rating: 8.9 |
| In this lesson, I'll show you guys a bit about intervals and how they can be applied to your music. The uses of intervals are endless and they can be useful tool. POSTED: 07/16/2009 - 07:55 am |
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| Playing With Triads, rating: 10 |
| How to create music using triad shapes on the guitar. POSTED: 07/13/2009 - 07:51 am |
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| Reading Tablature, rating: 8.4 |
| How to read the simpliest notation for guitar. POSTED: 06/29/2009 - 10:15 am |
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| Metal Madness. Part 2, rating: 8.2 |
| Teaches about the styles of alternate picking, economy picking, and tremolo picking in its relationship to metal. This could also be used for many other genres as well. POSTED: 06/19/2009 - 09:55 am |
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| Metal Madness, rating: 8 |
| Brief summary of metal tips/advice and easy techniques and tricks to make you sound like you know what your doing. POSTED: 06/18/2009 - 08:20 am |
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| Basic Scales, rating: 9.5 |
| This lesson is good for beginners and people who want scale knowledge. There is a little theory, and a two scales. POSTED: 06/16/2009 - 07:44 am |
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| Improving Finger Stretchability, rating: 8.3 |
| This lesson in tells a couple exercises that gradually improves your fingers' ability to stretch. POSTED: 06/15/2009 - 07:29 am |
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| Beginner Guitar. Lesson 1, rating: 8.8 |
| For people picking up a guitar for the first time, good aid. Includes a basic key, chord progression, fretboard map. POSTED: 06/08/2009 - 06:58 am |
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| Metalcore - The Basics. Part 2, rating: 8.9 |
| I go more in depth into some techniques you need to play Metalcore and so on. POSTED: 06/02/2009 - 06:06 am |
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| How To Tune A Guitar Without A Tuner, rating: 9.4 |
| This lesson teaches you how to tune your guitar without having a tuner at your disposal, and this technique will be perfected ONLY through practice. POSTED: 05/26/2009 - 02:37 am |
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| Metalcore - The Basics. Part 1, rating: 6.1 |
| I am teaching on how to play Metalcore music. I give some examples of different ways on how to improve and become a better player in the subgenre of Metalcore. POSTED: 05/18/2009 - 07:21 am |
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| How To Read Tabs, rating: 9.6 |
| This is only for beginners who are trying to learn how to read tabs. POSTED: 05/15/2009 - 08:01 am |
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| Babysteps - The Beginners Guide To Guitar. Part 2, rating: 8.8 |
| A continuing lesson which shows a rhythm pattern, introduces the student to standard notation and teaches them their first song while showing them some strengthing exercises. POSTED: 05/12/2009 - 08:14 am |
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| Babysteps - The Beginners Guide To Guitar. Part 1, rating: 9.5 |
| An opening lesson for new guitarists, teaching them guitar positioning, pick holding, strumming and basic open chords. POSTED: 05/07/2009 - 08:48 am |
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| Chords - 101 Notes And Chords And Scales, rating: 6.3 |
| Ever wondered how chords are formed. What actually is a major chord? Well, here is a simple lesson to get you started. POSTED: 05/05/2009 - 07:30 am |
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| An Introduction To Ska, rating: 9 |
| A basic guide to how to play ska music. POSTED: 04/30/2009 - 07:13 am |
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| A Little More Advanced Music Theory, rating: 7.5 |
| Ok, if you haven't read my previous lessons, now would be a good time to do so. So far we've covered building chords and talked a little bit about chord progressions. I promised a lesson on scales and modes so here it is. POSTED: 04/23/2009 - 07:54 am |
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| Lesson For Palm Muting, rating: 8.5 |
| This lesson will show you how to palm mute, a simple technique any guitarist should learn. Find tips and stuff in this lesson that might help. POSTED: 04/21/2009 - 08:51 am |
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| Improve Your Stretching, rating: 8.8 |
| Useful for strengthening your fingers and improving your stretching. POSTED: 04/20/2009 - 07:00 am |
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| The Complete Guide To Drop Tunings, rating: 8.7 |
| In this lesson I will teach you everything you need to know to play in drop tuning. POSTED: 04/16/2009 - 07:05 am |
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| Building Rediculous Speed With Moving Chromatic Exercises, rating: 9.7 |
| This lesson will show you ways to build speed and dexterity while improving your left and right hand techniques. Here I show you chromatic exercises that I practice on a daily basis. POSTED: 04/13/2009 - 08:17 am |
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| A Little Music Theory. Part 2, rating: 9.9 |
| This is a continuation of my first music theory lesson. I'll be going into more than just building chords, although that will still be in this lesson. You'll learn to build 7th chords and sus2 and sus4 chords. You'll also find out what makes a chord Major or minor or augmented or diminished. It's all really easy once you get used to it. POSTED: 04/09/2009 - 09:53 am |
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| Powering Up Your Fingers, rating: 9.6 |
| This lesson shows some really easy excersices to power-up all the fingers you need to play the guitar, this includes raising your fingers speed and accuracy. POSTED: 04/07/2009 - 08:01 am |
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| More Advanced Music Theory, rating: 5.3 |
| We left off with some basic chord building last time. This time I'll go more in depth with chords. This lesson is more about Theory and less about the guitar itself. POSTED: 03/31/2009 - 08:07 am |
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| Choosing The Right Starting Amp, rating: 8.3 |
| A potential mistake that could be made by any beginning electric guitarist is purchasing a crappy amp, leading to frustration and disappointment. Don't let it happen to you! POSTED: 03/30/2009 - 10:13 am |
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| Triads And Other Three Note Chords, rating: 10 |
| Triads and three note chords are the synthesis of chords, they are very useful for comping, specially uptempos, and help us to connect more efficiently any chords' voicings. POSTED: 03/30/2009 - 10:00 am |
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| Root Notes And Scales, rating: 7.4 |
| Teaches about the Notes on a guitar, Scales, and root notes. POSTED: 03/26/2009 - 11:14 am |
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| Some Good Warm-up Tips, rating: 6.7 |
| I've seen a lot of different ways to warm up, however the ways I'm about to show you will have your fingers ready to jam in no time! POSTED: 03/26/2009 - 11:02 am |
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| Guitar For Dummiez, rating: 6.4 |
| The first basic Keys and two songs to help beginners get the feel for guitar. POSTED: 03/23/2009 - 10:23 am |
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| Introduction To Dropped Tuning, rating: 6 |
| This lesson is written as an introduction to the usage of Dropped Tuning. Dropped Tuning is an alternate tuning used quite frequently by guitarists that play music such as metal, emo, hardcore, Metalcore, and countless other genres. This style of tuning the guitar is an adaptation of the standard form of tuning. It’s not impossible, but it would be easier to understand if you fully understand Standard Tuning. POSTED: 03/23/2009 - 09:25 am |
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| Rhythm Guitar - Your First Step To Vituosity, rating: 3 |
| Learn the first step to guitar greatness. Learn the chords and riffs of rhytm guitar. POSTED: 03/23/2009 - 08:56 am |
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| Songwriting Rhyming Patterns, rating: 6 |
| Different Rhyming Patterns to help make Your Lyrics Sound Great! POSTED: 03/23/2009 - 08:31 am |
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| Easy Guide To The Minor Pentatonic Scale, rating: 9.8 |
| In this lesson, I will try to guide you through the simple, yet powerful minor pentatonic scale. Let me learn you somethin'. POSTED: 03/23/2009 - 08:06 am |
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| The Bass Guitar For Beginners, rating: 8.1 |
| This is just a simple explenation of your first bass guitar. POSTED: 03/21/2009 - 08:02 am |
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| How To Read Tablaturetabs, rating: 10 |
| Learn how to read and write tabs in under 5 minutes! POSTED: 03/21/2009 - 06:51 am |
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| The Drop D Tuning, rating: 6.7 |
| The Drop D tuning is a easy to tune to guitar tuning that makes playing power chords on the last three strings easier, especially for beginners who just understood power chords. This lesson will teach you how to tune to drop d by ear and the possibilities this tuning can give you. POSTED: 03/17/2009 - 11:02 am |
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| Speed Up Your Soloing. Part IV - Speed-Building Runs, rating: 7.1 |
| The fourth lesson of "Speed Up Your Soloing". In this lesson, I'm going to show you some speed-building runs across at least three strings. POSTED: 01/21/2009 - 10:28 am |
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| Thinking Of Buying A Guitar, rating: 3.1 |
| I will share with you the uses of the different types of guitar. I would also recommend you what to get for the different genres. But of course, I will highlight that the genre of a guitar should not stop you from getting that guitar. POSTED: 01/21/2009 - 10:17 am |
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| Fingerpicking, rating: 7.4 |
| A lot of beginners ask questions on how to fingerpick, however it isn't a hard technique once you get used to it. This lesson tell you how to fingerpick and also give you examples POSTED: 12/10/2008 - 09:29 am |
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| Intervals, rating: 5 |
| An in depth explanation of intervals and an explanation on the music theory side. POSTED: 11/11/2008 - 06:47 am |
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| Learning The Entire Arpeggio, rating: 9.4 |
| This lesson shows how to play several common arpeggios at any position on the guitar. Knowing how to play the arpeggios down the entire length of the guitar and knowing how different arpeggios in the same key overlap will greatly help with your soloing and improvisation. POSTED: 11/06/2008 - 08:29 am |
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| Speed Exercises, rating: 8.8 |
| Various exercises to build up speed in your fretting hand. POSTED: 10/14/2008 - 08:50 am |
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| Chord Transition, rating: 6.7 |
| This lesson will help you change chords much quicker for begginers and give some tips to add flavor to your playing. POSTED: 10/14/2008 - 08:44 am |
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| Learning To Expand Your Playing, rating: 5.2 |
| Expanding your knowledge of the neck an showing how to move down the neck scales and chords. Also some note facts that could help you out. So check it out! POSTED: 10/14/2008 - 06:19 am |
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| Order Of Sharps Flats, rating: 4.3 |
| Sharps and flats. What are they? In this lesson, I will cover what they are, what they do, how to use them, and their proper order; all in a simple, easy way without remembering the Circle of Fifths. POSTED: 10/14/2008 - 06:15 am |
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| Speed And Accuracy Practice Techniques And Exercises, rating: 7.6 |
| Welcome to my lesson on how to build your left and right hand speed on playing guitar. Here I will show you some of my exerecises and a little technique to help you with your guitar skills. POSTED: 10/14/2008 - 06:09 am |
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| A Short Beginners Guide To The Guitar, rating: 9.2 |
| A short introductory lesson on guitar familiarization, reading tabs and tuning. POSTED: 10/13/2008 - 10:47 am |
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| Guitar Playing Height And Other Things To Consider About Playing, rating: 6.6 |
| Ever noticed how some people wear their guitar high, at a moderate height, or super low? This because of a number of factors you may not have thought of before. Plus a few other tips POSTED: 10/13/2008 - 10:34 am |
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| Palm Muting Exercises, rating: 6.2 |
| Some tasty palm muted riffs to get you rockin in no time POSTED: 10/13/2008 - 10:23 am |
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| Powering Up Your Pinky, rating: 9.5 |
| As an ace guitarist, you’re adept with your hands. The dexterity of any of your fretting fingers is greater than that of the average person’s entire body. Except, well, for that one rebellious one at the edge that sticks out as if you’re drinking tea in the Queen’s company. POSTED: 10/07/2008 - 10:29 am |
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| Warming Up And Sweep Picking, rating: 8.5 |
| These are a few exercises I like to use to warm up before gigs. They cover every thing from finger warmup, to picking warmup, to sweep picking. Just for reference, d=downstroke and u=upstroke. POSTED: 10/07/2008 - 10:22 am |
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| Beginner Lesson Part 1, rating: 7.8 |
| The ultimate ways to learn to play guitar from ground to the very top plus very easy to learn. POSTED: 10/07/2008 - 09:03 am |
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| Scale Chords, rating: 8.7 |
| A view on the scale of a guitar, basic chords, 7's, 9's etc. POSTED: 10/02/2008 - 03:52 am |
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| Types Of Scales, rating: 8 |
| A lesson about the types of scales. POSTED: 09/23/2008 - 08:50 am |
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| Arpeggios, rating: 5.5 |
| A guide to different types of arpeggios. POSTED: 09/23/2008 - 07:56 am |
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| Beginner's Guide, rating: 8.9 |
| This is basically the way I learned to play guitar. This guide features some of the basics, songs you can learn and tips to help you work your way through the beginnings of playing guitar POSTED: 09/19/2008 - 10:04 am |
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| Guide To Guitar. Part 2. Basic Rhythm Strengthening and Your First Song, rating: 8.2 |
| In this lesson I am going to be teaching you about the basics of rhythm and showing you a basic rhythm pattern. POSTED: 09/19/2008 - 08:32 am |
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| Guide To Guitar. Part 1. Basics And Open Chords, rating: 9.1 |
| First in a series of lessons. Shows basic of pick holding strumming and the basic open chords. POSTED: 09/19/2008 - 08:29 am |
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| How To Read Tablature, rating: 9.3 |
| Here you learn how to play tablature and things that go along with tablature. POSTED: 09/18/2008 - 04:50 am |
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| Drop Tuning, rating: 6.9 |
| how to tune to drop d, c, b, and a. POSTED: 09/16/2008 - 09:33 am |
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| Bending And Its Variations, rating: 8.3 |
| Beginners lesson on bending and its variations. POSTED: 09/16/2008 - 09:25 am |
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| Using Power Chords For Beginners, rating: 6.1 |
| Learn how to use power chords. For the people that always wonder, what are power chords and people that don't know how to get that punk or metal sound. POSTED: 09/12/2008 - 09:56 am |
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| Power Chords II, rating: 9 |
| Power chords are specific chords that are essential in playing electric guitar. They are a bare fifth of a chord, however I won't go into detail on that in this lesson. This lesson touches on the very basics and only uses the most common power chord types, those whom roots are on the 6th and 5th strings. POSTED: 05/25/2007 - 02:28 pm |
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| Am Pentatonic Scale Use, rating: 8.6 |
| New to soloing in the Am Pentatonic scale? Stuck on what to use in your improvisation? Read on for the help your looking for. POSTED: 05/16/2007 - 02:56 pm |
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| Introduction To Lead Guitar. Part 2, rating: 7.6 |
| This second part includes some of the most famous guitar riffs with the instructions on how to play them. POSTED: 11/03/2006 - 08:50 am |
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| Introduction To Lead Guitar. Part 1, rating: 8.2 |
| This lesson contains some basic concept about playing on lead guitar as well as some helpful tips to start with. POSTED: 10/06/2006 - 06:43 am |
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| Taking Care Of Your Guitar. Part 2, rating: 7.6 |
| There are also some tips on how to extend life of high end guitars as well as some songs to play! POSTED: 09/29/2006 - 07:48 am |
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| Taking Care Of Your Guitar. Part 1, rating: 9.3 |
| This lesson will teach you how to extend life of your guitar. Read on some useful tips. POSTED: 09/22/2006 - 04:06 am |
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| Getting To Know Your Guitar. Part 2, rating: 8.2 |
| This lesson is dedicated to playing notes on your guitar and strumming. POSTED: 09/15/2006 - 07:13 am |
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| Getting To Know Your Guitar. Part 1, rating: 9.4 |
| While certainly not the most glamorous part of playing guitar, learning how your instrument functions is vital towards becoming a successful guitarist. POSTED: 09/08/2006 - 06:51 am |
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| Parts Of An Electric Guitar, rating: 7.4 |
| A brief guide to all the little bells and whistles on an electric guitar. POSTED: 05/26/2006 - 10:24 am |
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| Learning Music Theory. The Beginning, rating: 9.1 |
| If you ever wanted to learn music theory this is the lesson for you! Covering everything you need to know and more on the basics to intermediate theory. Including examples and applying music theory on guitar. The ultimate theory lesson! POSTED: 10/06/2005 - 09:17 am |
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| What's String Bending, rating: 8.6 |
| If you've ever wondered exactly what people mean when they say "string bending," then this lesson will show you the ropes. POSTED: 10/06/2005 - 08:22 am |
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| What Kind Of Guitar To Buy, rating: 8 |
| A little bit of information on guitar bodies and necks and the differences in types of wood used in making them. POSTED: 05/18/2005 - 08:32 am |
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| Rhythm Guitar, rating: 3.1 |
| While most people think rhythm guitar is easy, some people like Jeff Hanneman (Slayer) and Matt Bachand (Shadows Fall) make it sick and you can be a sick rhythm guitarist to. POSTED: 03/09/2005 - 10:09 am |
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| Tuning Your Guitar II, rating: 8.3 |
| For those who need help on tuning. POSTED: 03/09/2005 - 09:54 am |
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| Tuning Your Guitar By Ear, rating: 8.9 |
| Ever heardthat creed song that uses DADadd tuning and not known how to get it? Find out here, if you dont have an electronic tuner. POSTED: 12/16/2004 - 08:21 am |
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| Set Up For Floyd Rose, rating: 6.6 |
| How to get the correct adjustment for a floyd rose style bridge. POSTED: 09/23/2004 - 08:08 am |
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| Harmonic Tuning, rating: 7.5 |
| How to tune your guitar with harmonics. It's very accurate and works fine if you have a decent guitar and distortion. POSTED: 07/15/2004 - 08:38 am |
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| Reading Guitar Tablature II, rating: 9.7 |
| This is a detailed, yet simple description on how to play tabs. POSTED: 04/30/2004 - 10:00 am |
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| Tablatures Definitions, rating: 9 |
| Here some definitions that are usually use in guitar and bass tablatures. POSTED: 04/21/2004 - 07:46 am |
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| Sliding Technique, rating: 5.4 |
| In this lesson I will try to explain as easily as possible how to slide, effects of sliding, and more. POSTED: 04/21/2004 - 07:36 am |
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| Harmonics For Beginners, rating: 8.1 |
| Harmonics are an easy technique that all beginners should make sure to learn. Here, in this lesson I try to make it as clear and simple as possible. POSTED: 10/03/2003 - 06:39 am |
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| Reading Guitar Tablature, rating: 7.5 |
| A short 'How-To' devoted to guitar tablature reading. POSTED: 10/03/2003 - 06:31 am |
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| What Is a Capo?, rating: 9.1 |
| This lesson provides details of the uses of capos and I hope that it will be useful to all readers. It is not essential to understand music theory to use a capo, although a basic knowledge of theory is required for the "advanced" part of the lesson. POSTED: 08/31/2003 - 05:56 am |
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| Barre Chord Forms, rating: 7.7 |
| This is a subject that I thought a lot of others would be interested in too so I'll start by describing what a barre chord is. A barre chord is created when you use one finger to fret more that one note at a time. POSTED: 08/31/2003 - 05:48 am |
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| Ear Training, rating: 9.2 |
| Why Ear Training Important? Read this article and find some useful ear training exercises. POSTED: 07/31/2003 - 07:16 am |
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| Bass Tabs Template, rating: 8.1 |
| This text template will help you in writing bass tabs. Please use this template for all your bass tabs. POSTED: 07/31/2003 - 07:16 am |
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| Guitar Tabs Template, rating: 9.6 |
| Want to write your own tablature? Please use this template. POSTED: 07/31/2003 - 07:16 am |
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| Guide To Tab Notation, rating: 8.9 |
| What is Tab? How to read guitar tabs: hammers, bends, pull-offs/ons, slides. How to write tabs? Read this first! POSTED: 07/31/2003 - 07:16 am |
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| Playing By The Numbers, rating: 6.8 |
| Professional manual which describes a number system to ease the transposing of music from one key to another. POSTED: 07/31/2003 - 07:16 am |
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| Tuning Your Guitar, rating: 7.9 |
| If you're not perfectly in tune, you're missing out on the whole experience. When the notes of a chord are played together, the result should be one full sound that stands on it's own. This is what happens when you are in perfect tune. POSTED: 07/31/2003 - 07:16 am |
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