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77Buying the first guitar for children and preteens
This hub is about picking (pun intended) the first guitar for a young child, preteen, or someone of similar size. When buying a beginner a guitar, the first question to ask is: How big is the budding...
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73Guitar Troubleshooting - Finding The Source Of A Bad Electric Guitar Connection
Sooner or later your electric guitar, cable, or amplifier is going to have problems and you need to do some guitar troubleshooting. There really isn't much that you can do to prevent it. Honestly, instruments...
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69Guitar lesson - chords in D
No.1 is a typical James Taylor style chord progression - the chords are fingerpicked, and rather than using all the possible notes of the chord, are stripped down to the essentials - which means they sound...
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90Guitar chords 101
I'm a guitar teacher and part-time college lecturer. As a result of many years of teaching guitar I can save you some time. In the chord pictures below I've tried to identify the essential chords, and...
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72Gibson SG Guitar
Ah, the Gibson SG! For many players that is about all that needs to be said. This model is certainly one of the more recognizable guitars in the world, probably in the top 10 or 15 on the list of guitars...
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83Guitar in open G Tuning
Why use this tuning? It sounds great and is very versatile. It also enables you to play nice chord voicings with open strings and harmonics, and use slide guitar sounds. Normal or standard tuning: E A D G B...
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69Music theory cycle of fifths
Knowing the intense hatred most people have for music theory, I'm going to keep this very simple. Every step in the clockwise direction adds a sharp to the key signature (the squiggly bit at the start of...
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80Gibson Guitars – The Les Paul – An American Classic
Among the thousands of guitar players around the globe, the Gibson Les Paul guitar is one of the guitars considered the ultimate six-string electric guitar to own. As the guitar industry exploded over the...
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94Easiest Songs for Electric Guitar
It is indeed a heavenly feeling to play your favorite songs on an electric guitar. However, it is essential that you start playing easy songs to make yourself familiar with the techniques involved in playing...
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93Guitar - advanced and jazz chords
The chord charts below cover most of the useful and most widely used chord types. If you check out some of my other hubs the underlying theory is explained - make sure you understand the harmonised scale and...
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