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Why You Should Learn to Transcribe Your Favorite Songs on Guitar

Adam Summers | June 8, 2010 | 1 Comments

How many times have you listened to a song and thought “If only I could create music like that”. It happens all the time and we go searching for answers only to be told you must practice the guitar every day and do all these practice routines so you get better and THEN you’ll be able to create music like that.

I’m here to tell you that there’s a much more enjoyable path and one that will lead you to become a better guitarist at the same time.

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Filed Under: Ear Training, Guitar Lessons

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Adam Summers | June 7, 2010 | 0 Comments

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Some Great Guitar Licks You Can Learn Today

Adam Summers | June 6, 2010 | 1 Comments

When improvising it’s much easier to use licks that you’ve practiced rather than starting from scratch every time. A great way to add them into your practice routine is to find out which key they’re in, run through a few scale warm-ups, put on your metronome and make a start.

I prefer to write down the licks as I play them, I know I can just print them out from the net and keep them in a folder, but I prefer to increase the chance that I’ll remember them as I’m learning them by using every piece of memory retention available to me, and writing down what you know with a pen on paper is one of the best ways to do that.

So, get out a blank piece of tab sheet music, load up the following licks from the net and write them down as you play them.

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Filed Under: Lead Guitar

Find Tab or Sheet Music for your Favorite Guitar Songs

Adam Summers | April 7, 2010 | 1 Comments

You might have noticed that the Internet is saturated with tabs for guitar songs, it’s almost like a guitarist’s paradise…

almost…

The problem is that 99% of tabs online are people’s own interpretations of the songs, and it’s usually a “close enough” type approach to learning a song. Read on to find the best source of guitar tabs online.
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Filed Under: Tabs

Learning Guitar Chords – Top 10 Mistakes

Adam Summers | May 24, 2009 | 45 Comments

Learning guitar chords is one of the most frustrating times for new guitarists. Your fingers are new to the fretboard and the strings, just getting the correct fingers into the correct position can be a chore, but I can assure you all the effort, cursing and determination is worth it.

Take a look at what I’ve learned from my students who have all gone through the stage of learning guitar chords, I present their struggles so that you can learn from them and hasten your own success in this area.

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Filed Under: Guitar Chords

5 Essential Guitar Tools I Couldn’t Live Without

Adam Summers | May 24, 2009 | 5 Comments

You’ve got a guitar and you’re set… right?

Learning guitar can be much easier when you have the right guitar tools on hand and there’s been some guitar tools in my studio that are like staple foods for me, I couldn’t live without them. Some of these things are obvious, like you should always have a good collection of picks, but often overlooked, sometimes it’s easy to get attached to one pick when you might benefit from changing picks for different styles of music.

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Filed Under: Guitar Tools

How to Play Guitar Standing Up

Adam Summers | September 26, 2008 | 2 Comments

You know you’ve nailed something on the guitar when you can play it just as easily standing up as you can sitting down.

Learning how to play guitar standing up not only gives you the buzz of showmanship it reinforces the techniques you’ve learned while sitting down, which improves your flexibility as a guitarist.

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Filed Under: How to Play Guitar

7 Free Online Guitar Tuners

Adam Summers | May 15, 2008 | 3 Comments

Tuning your guitar can be as simple as tuning to a single pitch (usually using the A string) and relatively tuning your guitar from that note, right through to tuning each string to it’s desired pitch.

If you primarily have your guitar hooked up to your computer for practice and your chosen piece of software doesn’t come with a tuner (for whatever reason) then you should check out these free online guitar tuners, which often do more than the label says.

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Filed Under: Guitar Tuners

Hey There Delilah Guitar Tabs

Adam Summers | May 13, 2008 | 2 Comments

Have fun playing this beautiful ballad, you’ll find its one of the easier songs to play, and if you learn the lyrics people will pick up what you’re playing straight away. Instant Guitarist Indeed!

The tabs will open up in a new window so you can play along to the song.

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Filed Under: Beginner Guitar Songs, Tabs

The 7 Greatest Guitar Solos – And How to Play Them

Adam Summers | February 5, 2008 | 5 Comments

Really nailing a guitar solo feels great, but deciding on which ones to really learn is often a hard choice. Here’s some of the best guitar solos that people find the most… learnable (is that a word?).

Check out some easy guitar solos by some artists you’re sure to recognize

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Filed Under: Lead Guitar
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