When playing a riff or melody, you have 2 choices.
You could play on 1 string of the guitar or across several strings using 1 fretting-hand position.
You may have seen videos I have posted on 1-stri...
You want to play a certain song.
You're so excited to play it.
But you're just not sure you can.
As someone who has taught guitar for 27 years, I see this all the time.
One thing that helps is bei...
You've probably heard that you can play hundreds of songs on guitar with only four chords.
You can use the G, D, E minor, and C chords.
Those chords work great with a song in the key of G.
But for ...
When you’re first learning guitar, you sometimes mute strings by accident.
You put a fretting-hand finger on one string and accidentally touch another string so the sound doesn’t come out.
When that...
You pick up the guitar but feel like you can’t do anything right.
A song you played perfectly yesterday now sounds bad.
A song you played last week feels like you never played it before.
Why?
Beca...
You decide what you want to accomplish.
You set a goal.
It might be small, like getting comfortable with G, D, Em, and C chords.
Or finally conquering barre chords.
Or understanding the guitar fre...
After playing a song and making several mistakes, he was frustrated.
I told him one thing that eliminated almost all of the mistakes the next time he played the song.
It's simple advice, but I've
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A lot of beginners start learning guitar by trying to play a bunch of different chords.
But that can quickly lead to frustration and feeling overwhelmed.
In my newest video, I share the 5 things I r...
This is a struggle for many beginner guitarists.
Chord switches interrupt the music.
It seems impossible to keep the strumming steady because it takes so long for the fretting-hand fingers to find t...
When you're a beginner on guitar, it's an exciting time.
There are so many songs you want to play, so many things you want to learn.
But where do you start?
It can be overwhelming.
One option is t...
It’s a useful skill.
Being able to find every note helps you to play chords, riffs, and melodies at various places on the fretboard.
But it’s challenging.
Many guitarists play for a long time witho...
We think a lot about what we want to learn on guitar.
The songs we want to play.
The chords, riffs, and melodies we enjoy.
That’s great!
But we don’t think as often about what’s holding us back.
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