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Great, affordable amplifiers for Blues Guitar

If you are looking to buy an amplifier to play blues guitar, it helps to know a little bit about the different types of amps available, and how they will sound. Valves, tubes, transistors and solid state You...

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Learn Electric Guitar Fast

The most important factor in improving your guitar playing is to practice regularly. The difference between regular practice and regular playing All practice involves playing the guitar, but not all guitar...

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Blues Solos For Guitar

Blues solos are a must-learn for many guitar players. As well as being integral to the playing of blues guitar, blues solos also form a cornerstone of many other styles of music derived from or influenced by...

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Choosing a Guitar Teacher

So you're looking for a guitar teacher, but aren't sure where to start? Here are a few hints and tips to make the best choice. A guitar teacher's ability to teach is more important than their ability to...

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alternate picking

Alternate Picking is a right hand technique that involves strictly adhering to playing an upstroke after every downstroke, and a downstroke after every upstroke. It is most commonly used by electric...

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Air Guitar

What is Air Guitar? Air Guitar is an instrumental art, involving the playing of a guitar made of air along to recorded music, usually some sort of heavy metal or hard rock. Why would I want to do that? Because...

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Tuning a guitar

You should check your guitar's tuning each time you play it. Many new guitarists ignore this, and it is usually the main reason that they sound like beginners. Standard tuning on a guitar, going from lowest...

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Guitar Intonation

What exactly is guitar intonation? Guitar intonation refers for the need for each string on the guitar to be a slightly different length in order for the notes to sound at the correct pitch when the strings...

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Some cool 12 bar progressions for Blues Guitar

12 bar blues progressions are by far the most common ways of playing the blues. They are also common in Jazz and Rock n Roll music, and are a great way for any guitarist to explore theory and practice new...

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Blues Guitar Instruction

The blues, perhaps more than any other well-known musical genre, is surrounded in mystery, and has never been the subject of formal musical education in quite the way that jazz or classical music has. This...

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