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- Your old model for music lessons doesn’t work.
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- Chopin Plays The Changes
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- Crosscut Saw (Albert King): easy blues guitar intro
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- Essential Riffs: Funk 49
- Picker’s Delight: Uneasy Rider
- SOTW: Sister Golden Hair
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- Lead Guitar 101: Phrasing and line
- SOTW: Guy Clark’s “LA Freeway”
- Song of the week: Boom Boom
- Do you practice music like you mow the lawn?
- Guest post: jamming and playing by ear
- The Perpetual Beginner’s Guide To Practicing
- The most important thing to learn from guitar lessons.
- 2019 Holiday Guitar Lesson Specials: Buy 4, Get 1 Free
- Introducing the Perpetual Beginner Project.
- Getting the most out of your guitar lessons
- Managing hand pain: should you push through it?
- Making the most of your practice time
- Core Concepts 12: build a repertoire and perform it
- Core concepts 11: never stop looking for new options
- Core Concepts 10: improvise and explore!
- Core Concepts 9: Know the rules, learn from the rulebreakers
- Core Concepts 8: play well with others
- Core Concepts 7: the best musicians have big ears.
- Core Concepts 6: balance your practice time
- Core Concepts 5: connect the dots, learn relationships.
- Core Concepts 4: every technical challenge has a mechanical solution
- Core Concepts 3: what’s your musical direction?
- Core Concepts 2: talent is an advantage, not a requirement
- Core Concepts 1: make friends with your guitar
- Putting the pieces together
- Get rhythm: timing and feel.
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- The one lead guitar rule you should never break.
- Learning to understand harmony
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- Professional skill vs personal style
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- Three simple steps to more relaxed playing
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- New moveable shapes from barre chords
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- Should you anchor your picking hand?
- How do scales become melodies?
- Learn new ways to play familiar chords.
- 5 essential rules for accompanists
- Guest post: speaking of practice…
- Does your playing serve your writing?
- A better way to learn scales
- What you know and why it matters
- Finding community, playing together.
- Three reasons why every musician should sing.
- Practical music theory: what is a key?
- What listening to new music can do for your playing
- Balancing technical challenges and musical satisfaction.
- Performing makes you a better player.
- 3 tips for practicing with a metronome
- Three chords and the truth
- Three reasons why you should join the band.
- What’s The Best Way To Learn To Play
- Organize your practice time!
- The Perpetual Beginner: boxed in by chord boxes?
- The Perpetual Beginner: what makes a good teacher
- The Perpetual Beginner: how to play smoother chord changes
- The Perpetual Beginner: the problem with tablature
- Walking the walk
- The Perpetual Beginner: 5 tips for smoother playing
- The Perpetual Beginner: making effective commitments with personalized lesson plans
- The Perpetual Beginner: expanding your chord vocabulary
- The Perpetual Beginner: just play!
- The Perpetual Beginner: creating your personal guitar syllabus
- What A Wonderful World: Tommy Emmanuel balances taste and technique
- Self-assessment on guitar: 3 big-picture areas to explore
- Your picking hand: the ultimate analog effect
- Road notes: stage interaction and the pitfalls of live sound
- The Perpetual Beginner: 3 things you probably aren’t doing when you practice
- The Perpetual Beginner: the brilliant simplicity of Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
