Pivots: The Key to Efficient Chord Transitions
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Buckling Knuckles
Are your knuckles buckling? That is, are your fingers nice and curved, or flattening out when you’re trying to play chords? If they are flattening, one issue could be...
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How Should I Play This?
One of the most common things I encounter with guitar coaching students is: how to I accurately replicate the style of a song, especially if it’s not performed on...
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Proud Mary
There is a really cool “lick” in Proud Mary by CCR, and it really adds to the song when you can pull it off. Here is a quick tutorial: [video_player...
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Visualization as Practice
This is a continuation on my blog post from Music Therapy Source, which I recommend reading before watching this video or reading the transcript. Transcript: I recently wrote...
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Thoughts about practicing – You could play like Hendrix
It’s really important to set appropriate goals, just like we do with our clients. Step by step…here’s a little article I wrote about that concept: You Could...
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Major Scale and Arpeggio Starting on E String
Another exercise that incorporates this information can be found in Essentials: Guitar Gym > Major scale and Thirds Note: The numbers on this diagram represent scale...
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When Should I Change Guitar Strings?
I originally posted this on my primary website, Music Therapy Source, but it belongs here as well: The strings I use: The long-lasting Elixirs: The disclaimer: If you buy...
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Usefulness of Scales and Melodies
Some guitar fundamentals can be really useful therapeutically, although it’s not always obvious at first. Learning scales might seem tedious and not necessarily...
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Slap Strum
Hooray! A new strum! This will also be added to the strumming section of the Essentials module.
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