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The Best Songs to Learn on Acoustic Guitar For Beginners
Learning to play the acoustic guitar can be fun and rewarding, but at first you might feel a bit overwhelmed trying to find songs that you can easily play with little or no experience. Don’t give up because there are guitar songs… even ones that you know and love that are written with the beginner in mind.
One of the first things you learn as a beginner on the guitar are chords and chord progressions. As you learn these progressions you will want to find easy songs that you can play that incorporate these chords.
Good easy songs written for the guitar have a few things in common: Read the rest of this entry »
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Measuring Your Guitar Progress – Keeping Motivated
A lot of guitar players seem to lose the fire in guitar playing after some time learning how to. This is a very common occurrence for guitar players. Everyone just seems to hit a wall at one point in their guitar playing lives. This could even happen to you. It might already be happening that is why you’re reading this now. At one point in your guitar playing life, you start to lose the interest once you feel that you have stopped getting better or making progress with your guitar playing. So how exactly do you maintain the drive for guitar playing?
First, you need to find out what exactly has made you stop wanting to play the guitar. The first year or months of learning can really push you to excel since you can easily see that you are making some progress. It’s like being in a new place, learning different things. You are really able to enjoy the learning experience. You get to find out what major and minor chords are. You learn licks, riffs and other stuff that really get you interested. But after all these, what’s next?
It can be really easy to track your progress during the earlier parts of learning to play the guitar. It’s easy to know that last week, you were able to learn what a major chord is. This week, you are learning what minor chords are. Last week, you were learning barre chords. This week you’re trying to perfect your hammer-on. After you’ve learned all the basics, you feel that you just hit a dead end. It gets a lot more difficult to notice how much progress you’ve made after you learn all the basics. Read the rest of this entry »
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Learn To Play Piano Chords Learn To Play II-V-I Progressions
II-V-I progressions are common in most types of popular music and mainstream jazz and more. If you can play II-V-I progressions you are in a lucky position. What then is a II-V-I progression? Well, come and see!
A C-major scale consists of seven notes: C D E F G A B
A C-major chord consists of the first, third and fifth notes in the C-major scale. This is called a triad.
A chord built from the first step of the scale can also be called I from the roman number one.
If I start on the second note of the C-major scale and construct a triad chord consisting of D F A, I have a chord built upon the second step of the scale. Read the rest of this entry »
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