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Top 10 Easy Classical Guitar Songs For Beginners

Top 10 Easy Classical Guitar Songs For Beginners

Classical guitar is a beautiful combination of technique, composition, tradition, and passion. If you want to get started exploring the classical guitar, here are ten easy classical guitar songs perfect for beginners. Let's get started. Choosing Classical Songs for Beginners Choosing the songs is both easy and difficult.

Flatpick Guitar Lessons with Bryan Sutton: Something For Everyone

Flatpick Guitar Lessons with Bryan Sutton: Something For Everyone

Who is Bryan Sutton? Primarily known as a flatpicked acoustic guitar player, Sutton also plays mandolin, banjo, ukulele, and electric guitar. He’s played with the likes of Dixie Chicks, Jerry Douglas, Sam Bush, Béla Fleck, Hot Rize, Chris Thile, Tony Rice... ...he’s played with everybody. Sutton is a

Top 10 Fingerstyle Guitar Courses on TrueFire

Top 10 Fingerstyle Guitar Courses on TrueFire

TrueFire.com is a massive, online center for guitar lessons. It's what Guitar Player magazine has called, "the planet's largest and most comprehensive selection of online guitar lessons." And in the area of fingerstyle guitar, they deserve particular attention for carrying a series of

Top 10 Easy Bluegrass Guitar Songs For Beginners

Top 10 Easy Bluegrass Guitar Songs For Beginners

Bluegrass doesn't have to be intimidating. When you listen to legends like Doc Watson and Tony Rice, it's easy to be intimidated by the lightening fast, single note lead lines or the intricate fingerpicking. But much of the acoustic guitar's role in bluegrass is

Gypsy Jazz Picking (Rest-Stroke Picking)

Gypsy Jazz Picking (Rest-Stroke Picking)

Today I'd like to chat about the style of picking used in gypsy jazz guitar, otherwise known as 'rest stroke' picking. This picking technique is what allows gypsy jazz guitarists to produce such a strong sound on their instrument, and once mastered, is a real asset

A Very Useful Gypsy Jazz Arpeggio (with TAB, picking, & fingering)

A Very Useful Gypsy Jazz Arpeggio (with TAB, picking, & fingering)

Today I'd like to share with you a very useful shape. One of the most versatile arpeggios you can learn as a gypsy jazz guitarist is shown below. The great thing about this shape is that you can use it to improvise over three chord-types. For instance, in

10 Vocal Tips Just for Guitarists

10 Vocal Tips Just for Guitarists

Can I tell you a secret? As a vocal coach, some of my favorite students are guitarists. That’s because without learning to play guitar, I never would have become the singing teacher I am today. I actually didn’t even care about my voice until I started playing and

An Introduction to Traditional Irish Guitar

An Introduction to Traditional Irish Guitar

GUEST POST - I thought I might offer a few words in this post about a guitar genre that rarely gets the spotlight outside of its own community of players, namely that of guitar accompaniment in traditional Irish music. Now when I say "traditional Irish music " - or

How To Sing And Play Guitar At The Same Time

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How To Sing And Play Guitar At The Same Time

GUEST POST - Learning to sing can be a tricky task at the best of times, but when you also add playing guitar to the mix it's easy for your playing or singing to go a little haywire as you focus on those fancy licks or that high