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Soloing over diminished chords

May 22, 2012 By Matty

How to deal with a diminished chord? Last week while working on a Jazz piece with one of my guitar students, I struck a problem. We were soloing over this piece and everything was fine until we hit one chord. The diminished chord. Now as a Guitar Teacher with well over 10 years experience and as a […]

Open G Tuning

May 11, 2012 By Matty

Open G tuning – open up a whole new world of possibilities for guitarists! Slide guitar is tricky! If you want to be good at it, practice practice practice!!! It can be used to create melodies that aren’t physically possible in standard tuning. It can be used to create interesting chords that leave other guitarists […]

Beginner Guitar Lessons: Formal or Self Taught Lessons

April 13, 2009 By Matty

Guitar is probably the most famous musical instrument in the world today. And frankly, this is a no-brainer since everyone is really aware of the number of people getting attached to this instrument. But what most people are wondering about is how these people manage to become so good at this instrument. As a matter […]

Secrets Of Practicing Guitar

March 19, 2009 By Matty

I guess you practice on your guitar in the hope of becoming a better guitarist with the joy that follows. However, many learning processes are active when you practice on your guitar. Learning how to practice the guitar correctly is very important when it comes to maximizes what you can learn on the guitar. After […]

Guitar Chords for Beginners

March 13, 2009 By Matty

One of the easiest ways to start learning how to play guitar is learning the 3 essential beginner guitar chords. These chords will help your guitar playing significantly and will help you become a better guitar player. What are Guitar Chords?   Beginner Guitar Chords Here is what a basic guitar chord diagram looks like. […]

How to Clean an Electric Guitar

March 7, 2009 By Matty

red electric guitar

Cleaning an electric guitar is similar to cleaning a guitar but there are a few more things you need to take note of. Some of these factors are that an electric guitar has many metal parts and lots of the hardware detaches so that you can clean it better. I will go over these in […]

Learn How To Play Guitar Online

March 1, 2009 By Matty

Everyone who is a young inspiring guitarist wants to learn how to play guitar. In order to understand how to play guitar you need to first understand what is required of you to put into it in order to achieve results. Everyone can learn how to play guitar but if you want to be the […]

How to Tune a Guitar

February 22, 2009 By Matty

Learning how to tune a guitar is a very important quality that every guitarist and musician should have. It is so important because if your guitar is not in tune it will sound horrible regardless of how good you areas a guitar player. This is why it is so important to learn how to tune […]

How to Boil Guitar Strings

February 16, 2009 By Matty

guitar strings

Today’s post is going to be about how to boil guitar strings. This is a question that actually shows up quite a bit and it’s an actually pretty interesting method of reviving old guitar strings and stretching new ones. If you boil your guitar strings you can squeeze a little bit of extra life out […]

A List of Easy Guitar Songs For Beginners

February 12, 2009 By Matty

Beginner Guitar Songs are fun and easy to play on the guitar. When you have the chords down pat, the first thing you will want to do is get some tablature for actual songs. The best songs to begin with are the ones with fairly simple chords. Beginner guitar songs are those that have just […]

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