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Effects Pedals for Beginners: Best Picks and Tips
Which effects pedals are best for beginners, and how do you use them? Start with one or two simple pedals, such as an overdrive…
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How a Guitar Amp Works: A Beginner’s Guide
Short answer: A guitar amp boosts the weak signal from the pickups in your electric guitar and sends it to a speaker. The preamp…
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How to Choose a Guitar Strap That Fits Well
Short answer: A guitar strap that fits well is adjustable, made of a material that feels good and wide enough for the weight of…
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Which Guitar Strings Are Best for Beginners?
Short answer: Choose guitar strings based on your guitar first: nylon strings for a classical guitar, steel strings made of bronze or phosphor bronze…
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How to Use a Guitar Tuner App
Short answer: With a guitar tuner app, you tune your guitar through your phone’s microphone. Open the app, allow microphone access, choose standard tuning…
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Best Guitar Pick for Beginners
Short answer: A pick is a flat piece of plastic that you use to strike the strings. As a beginner, the best choice is…
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Learning Guitar When You Are Busy
Learning guitar when you are busy comes down to short, fixed practice moments. Practicing 10 to 15 minutes regularly often works better than one…
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How to Start Guitar as an Absolute Beginner
How do you start guitar as an absolute beginner? Choose a guitar that feels comfortable, tune it well and first learn a few simple…
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Learning to Play Guitar with Limited Mobility
Learning to play guitar with limited mobility is perfectly possible, as long as you match your instrument, posture and technique to what your body…
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Learning Guitar as a Left-Handed Child
If you want to teach a left-handed child to play guitar, first decide together which side feels best: left-handed on a mirrored guitar, or…
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Learning to Play Guitar With Arthritis
Learning to play guitar with arthritis is perfectly possible if you adapt your guitar, technique and practice routine to your hands. Choose a guitar…
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Learning Guitar as a Teen
Learning to play guitar as a teen starts with a guitar that feels good to play, a few basic chords and fifteen to thirty…
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Tips for Adults Learning Guitar
Learning guitar as an adult works best with a clear goal, short but daily practice sessions and a fixed order: first the basic chords,…
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How to Improvise on Guitar
How do you improvise on guitar? You pick a scale that fits the chords of a song, usually the pentatonic scale, and use it…
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Learning Guitar as a Left-Handed Player
Short answer: As a left-handed player, you can play guitar on a left-handed guitar, on a right-handed guitar that has been converted, or simply…
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Learning Guitar With Small Hands
You can learn to play guitar just fine with small hands or short fingers. The biggest difference comes from a guitar that fits your…
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Making Chord Charts for Your Own Songs
You make a chord chart for your own song in four steps: pick a key, take the chords that belong to it, put them…
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What Is Harmony in Guitar Music?
What is harmony in guitar music? Harmony is the sound of several notes played at the same time, as in a chord, and the…
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Learning to Modulate on Guitar
Learning to modulate on guitar comes down to one skill: switching smoothly to another key in the middle of a song. You usually do…
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How Counting Rhythm on Guitar Works
How does counting rhythm on guitar work? You divide every measure into fixed beats and count them out loud while you play, for example…
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Understanding Chord Progressions on Guitar
A chord progression is the order in which chords follow one another in a song. The fastest way to understand chord progressions on guitar…
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How to Learn Metal Riffs on Electric Guitar
You learn metal riffs on electric guitar by getting three building blocks under your fingers: power chords, palm muting and tight picking on the…
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Learning Music Theory for Guitarists
Learning music theory as a guitarist starts with three things: the notes on the guitar neck, how scales are built and how chords come…
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Learning Reggae Rhythms on Guitar
You learn reggae rhythms on guitar by playing chords short and muted on the offbeat: in 4/4 time you usually strike the chord only…