This lesson covers all important symbols you will encounter when reading guitar tab. You can see how the strings are laid out and diagrammed in guitar tab notation along with many symbols like hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, releases and muting. Each of these items is then demonstrated for you in the video while displaying the associated symbol in tab form.
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How to Write a Love Song on the Piano
If you're in an intermediate stage of your piano playing and are comfortable moving between different chords, get ready to apply more creativity to your playing. Here is a great introduction to writing your own song with a few simple chords. By taking a root chord, 4 chord, 6th chord and 5 chord, and playing them together while sprinkling in notes between, you can turn out a very nice sounding love song.
See for yourself and give it a try. Pick out the four chords that I've noted in any key that you desire and just let your creativity flow.
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See for yourself and give it a try. Pick out the four chords that I've noted in any key that you desire and just let your creativity flow.
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Learn to Play Barre Chords on the Guitar
One thing that seems pretty straightforward but many times burns out a lot of beginner guitarists is playing barre chords. Since the barre chord shape doesn't ever change as you move up and down the neck, it seems like an easy alternative to playing standard chord shapes. In fact, it is an easy alternative and once you train your fingers to hold this position, you can easily slide up and down the neck to produce different chords.
This video will show you how to set the barre chord shape on your guitar fretboard and then use it to play different chords. The key is to learn the shape and then put in lots of practice time so that your index finger is strengthened enough to barre over all six strings.
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This video will show you how to set the barre chord shape on your guitar fretboard and then use it to play different chords. The key is to learn the shape and then put in lots of practice time so that your index finger is strengthened enough to barre over all six strings.
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How to Play Blues Piano
With this lesson, you are shown exactly how to unleash your hands from rigid standard piano playing and free them up to work the blues scales to their maximum potential. You can see in the video how he takes a common blues scale, memorizes it and then uses that scale to jump all over the keyboard, all while staying in the correct key.
This is why it's really important to really focus yourself on learning one of the popular blues scales and then simply grab notes from it as you move up and down the keyboard.
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This is why it's really important to really focus yourself on learning one of the popular blues scales and then simply grab notes from it as you move up and down the keyboard.
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Learn to Play Country Bluegrass Lead Guitar
We like to touch upon many different musical styles when learning guitar. This will help you to have a more rounded understanding of the instrument and have more under your belt.
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Here is a great lesson on playing country bluegrass lead. Learn a great bluegrass-style lick and see the similarities to playing blues lead guitar.
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Recognizing Notes on the Piano
This video lesson is for anyone new to the piano and reading music. It will show you exactly how notes are named as you move up and down the keys on a piano. This will also allow you to visualize theoretically how notation on the music staff works.
Remember that sharps go up (to the right) and flats go down (to the left). Once you see how simple this system is, you can easily understand how an Eb = D# and an Fb = E and so on!
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Remember that sharps go up (to the right) and flats go down (to the left). Once you see how simple this system is, you can easily understand how an Eb = D# and an Fb = E and so on!
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How to Play Blues Lead on the Guitar Using the Major Pentatonic Scale
With this lesson, we introduce how to play blues lead on the electric guitar by simply using the Major Pentatonic scale.
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The G Major Pentatonic scale is used (G A B D E) in each of the examples.
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Finding Chords on the Piano
With this lesson you will find out how to really take your piano playing to the next level. This lesson is focused on the basics of finding chords easily on the piano. In order to be able to do this with ease, it's very important that you memorize the circle of fifths and scales for the key that you are playing in.
Once you have both the circle of fifths and the scales under your belt, the flood gates are wide open for you to grasp music theory and chord theory on the piano!
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Once you have both the circle of fifths and the scales under your belt, the flood gates are wide open for you to grasp music theory and chord theory on the piano!
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How to Play Slide Guitar for Beginners
Here's a video lesson that's great for any beginner guitarist or just anyone new to playing guitar with a slide. Slide guitar is great because it has a very cool sound, you can also play all kinds of different blues, bluegrass and surf music without worrying about complex fingerings!
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This lesson covers the basics of slide guitar, to follow along and learn, simply tune your guitar to drop D tuning (D - A - D - G - B - E), or drop your lower E string to D from standard tuning. This tuning is the basis for many slide guitar songs because the slide needs to bar across different strings and create chords. This is possible with drop D tuning because it leaves your lowest three strings in a root-fifth-root configuration so that you can play power chords with a bar over the strings.
Enjoy one of the easiest guitar methods that any novice can pick up quickly and sound great right away!
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How to Play Piano Notes on the Bass Clef
This lesson will guide you through how to read and play piano notes on the bass cleff. The bass clef includes notes which are located under the Middle C. This is why it's most closely associated with left hand piano playing.
The bass clef is necessary because notating music on the treble clef would require too many ledger lines to easily read.
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The bass clef is necessary because notating music on the treble clef would require too many ledger lines to easily read.
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How to Change Chords on the Guitar
One of the greatest challenges that a beginner Guitarist faces is learning to change chords. The best way to learn to do this is by starting out with chords that have very similar fingerings. You'll find that when learning to play chords this way, you actually rewire your brain to think of chords as shapes rather than fingerings. You can then begin to play more and more complex chords and easily move between them.
To see what I mean, view the video lesson and practice along with the different chords that are demonstrated. Once you've been able to play two chords in sequence, you can begin to put more together to form different songs!
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To see what I mean, view the video lesson and practice along with the different chords that are demonstrated. Once you've been able to play two chords in sequence, you can begin to put more together to form different songs!
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How to Play Basic Major Chords on the Piano
This is related to the previous "How to Play Minor Chords on the Piano" post. Now you will learn how to play the basic Major chords on the piano. Pay close attention to the demonstration of how the chords are played. When you're ready to try it for yourself, pick out a few of the chords and start memorizing their fingerings.
Soon you'll be able to land on the chords without much thought and you can even begin to add in the Minor chords that you learned from the previous lesson to make up a song!
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Soon you'll be able to land on the chords without much thought and you can even begin to add in the Minor chords that you learned from the previous lesson to make up a song!
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How to Keep Your Guitar in Tune!
Did you know that there was a proper way of tightening your strings when tuning your guitar so that it stays in tune better? A lot of experienced guitarists aren't even aware of this simple method to keeping your guitar IN TUNE!
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View the video below to see how:
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How to Play Basic Minor Chords on the Piano
Here is an introduction to playing Minor chords on the piano. Watch the demonstration of each chord being played and listen closely to how each sounds. Then, try it for yourself! Pick out a few of the chords that sound appealing and begin memorizing them.
Soon you'll be able to land on the chords without much thought and you can begin to add other chords to make up a song.
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Soon you'll be able to land on the chords without much thought and you can begin to add other chords to make up a song.
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How to Write a Song on the Guitar
Unlock your creative energy and begin writing your own songs! Here's how.
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First, download the Major Key sheet for FREE at http://www.nextlevelguitar.com/pdf/chordsineachkey.pdf
Next, choose a row for a key to write your song in. I recommend the first row which is C Major for beginners.
Finally, after learning to play the chords, start picking out certain chords from that row and put them together to see how they sound. Once you find a nice sounding chord pattern, repeat it to form the basis of your song. Usually three or four chords together in a row works nicely (ever hear of three chord bands?)
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How to Play 5-Finger Patterns and Chords on the Piano
With this piano podcast, you can learn to construct any Major chord with 5-finger patterns. This will allow you to play any Major chord that you may come across on sheet music or lead sheets.
For 5-finger chord pattern diagrams of all the Major chords on the piano, please see our books available at String Theory Chords.
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For 5-finger chord pattern diagrams of all the Major chords on the piano, please see our books available at String Theory Chords.
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Palm Muting on the Guitar
If you've ever wanted to learn palm muting on the guitar, here's a quick video to show you how it's done. Remember to lightly rest your palm near the bridge of the guitar across the strings that you wish to mute.
It may take a little practice to find the right feel for palm muting if you are a beginner. Just keep in mind that you want to slightly dampen the strings to where they don't fully ring out.
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It may take a little practice to find the right feel for palm muting if you are a beginner. Just keep in mind that you want to slightly dampen the strings to where they don't fully ring out.
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How to Play Major Scale on the Guitar
One of the first things that serious guitarists learn when just beginning on the Guitar is how to play the Major scale. The Major scale can be seen as an important building block of music, as he mentions. Once you learn the Major scale, you can expand upon it and apply it toward many other related concepts on the Guitar.
With this lesson, you will see the Major scale demonstrated along with an outline of the fundamentals.
Try it with G, C, D and so on.
Just remember the pattern: Whole, Whole, Half, Whole, Whole, Whole, Half
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With this lesson, you will see the Major scale demonstrated along with an outline of the fundamentals.
Try it with G, C, D and so on.
Just remember the pattern: Whole, Whole, Half, Whole, Whole, Whole, Half
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Piano Scales Fingering Technique
The proper technique for playing scales on the piano! These exercises will show you how to form your hands in the correct posture while moving higher or lower on the piano keyboard. You'll also learn the logic behind fingerings and different scales.
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By understanding scales you will have a high advantage when playing musical pieces or improvising. It will also help you improve your piano-playing motor skills to play faster and smoother.
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How to Play Beginner Guitar Chords
If you're new to the guitar, learning chords and be a difficult task. With this short video lesson, you can learn to play a handful of common chords without having to figure it out for yourself. Just watch how the demonstrator places his fingers on the individual notes to make up the different chords. Then, try it yourself.
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Continue practicing each chord individually until you feel comfortable with them and are able to land each the notes which make up the chords accurately. Once you have the chords memorized and are able to properly form them with your fingers, you can begin to combine chords to make up songs!
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Blues Improvisation Tricks for Beginner Pianists
If you're a beginning pianist and want to learn the blues, try out these helpful tips to get you started. You'll instantly be able to play blues licks on the piano and sound great doing it!
Take your blues soloing to a whole new level by learning that C blues scale as she demonstrates. Add to it or try it out with trills and thirds. Don't worry if you can't keep up with everything she is playing. Pick out a few hand positions that she uses and memorize those while adding in trills and thirds.
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Take your blues soloing to a whole new level by learning that C blues scale as she demonstrates. Add to it or try it out with trills and thirds. Don't worry if you can't keep up with everything she is playing. Pick out a few hand positions that she uses and memorize those while adding in trills and thirds.
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Learn to Build Guitar Chords with Simple Music Theory
Learn all about chords and how they are built using simple music theory guidelines. This is a great way to step into a whole new realm and league with your guitar playing! By understanding chords and how they are built, you can begin to piece together all kinds of music theory fundamentals to play other chords, scales and musical compositions.
With this video tutorial you'll learn about scales, intervals and chord qualities such as sixth, ninth, diminished and so on. By understanding how each of these concepts work together, you'll have a much firmer grasp on not only guitar chord theory, but also music theory as a whole!
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With this video tutorial you'll learn about scales, intervals and chord qualities such as sixth, ninth, diminished and so on. By understanding how each of these concepts work together, you'll have a much firmer grasp on not only guitar chord theory, but also music theory as a whole!
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How to Read Piano Notes on the Music Staff for Beginners
If you're a beginner on the piano, learning how to read sheet music and notes on the music staff can be very intimidating. With this tutorial, it's spelled out for you in a very easy-to-understand format!
As long as you know your alphabet, you can count up and down on the music staff in the bass and treble clef to pick out any note you want. Just follow the guidelines that he introduces in the video and you'll be picking notes out of sheet music immediately!
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As long as you know your alphabet, you can count up and down on the music staff in the bass and treble clef to pick out any note you want. Just follow the guidelines that he introduces in the video and you'll be picking notes out of sheet music immediately!
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Beginner Guitar Lesson - How to Play Barre Chords
If you're new to the guitar, playing and remembering chords can be a daunting task. Fortunately, there's a simpler way to play chords, without ever having to change the position of your fingers!
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These are called barre chords and are played by using your index finger as the barre of the chord over all six strings while the rest of your fingers play all of the other notes. Once you have this fingering position set up on the fretboard, you can simply shift it up and down to play different chords!
Barre chords are a useful substitute, especially for the beginners, to playing standard chord shapes. As they require you to hold your index finger over all six strings, they also help you to develop finger dexterity, and the ability to hold chord positions for a longer period of time.
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How to Read Piano Sheet Music Made Easy!
Here is a great video tutorial which breaks down and simplifies reading sheet music specifically for the piano! The teacher in this video shows you exactly how you can read sheet music and visualize it on the piano before you apply it and actually begin playing. This is a must for anyone new to piano or sheet music staff notation and one of the best lessons I've seen on the subject!
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How to Play "Let it Be" by The Beatles for the Beginning Guitarist
For beginning guitarists it can sometimes be very difficult to find a good first song to start learning. You want to pick a song that uses the same chords in both the verse and chorus. This way you only need to memorize a few basic chords.
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Here is a lesson on playing "Let it Be" by The Beatles, a very simple and recognizable song which lends itself well to the beginning guitarist. This song uses the chords C, G, Am and F in different variations throughout. He shows you how to play each chord along with the proper order for the verse and chorus. Next, he plays some background music of "Let it Be" which he uses to demonstrate when to change chords in the song. Finally, he shows you how to strum each chord along with the chord changes to play the entire song!
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Learn How to Play the Piano in 10 Minutes
If you're new to the piano, this is a great introduction to get you started in minutes! Learn all about locating the Middle C on the piano and then finding notes and chords. Before you know it, you'll have a few chords under your belt with a good understanding of how to play songs on the piano!
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How Do You Read Music Notes on the Guitar?
This video tutorial will show you! Pay attention to how he breaks down the guitar into it's most simple, easy to understand components. Apply the fundamentals of the music staff to the guitar with this simple understanding of the guitar in mind. This will allow you to really visualize how notes are laid out on the guitar's fretboard and begin to read music.
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Simple Formula for Remembering Chords on the Piano
With this one short tutorial you'll learn the simple yet reliable formula for playing and remembering hundreds of chords on the piano! This tutorial covers the Major, Minor and Seventh chords but the concept can be carried over to any type of chords out there.
Just remember the rule of 7 and count upward from the root of the chord at the intervals specified in the video.
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Just remember the rule of 7 and count upward from the root of the chord at the intervals specified in the video.
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Learn How to Read Bass Clef on the Piano!
Here is an excellent video tutorial on bass clef and how it applies to piano. You will learn all about the bass clef notes and how they are oriented along with the treble clef. Remember that the Middle C is positioned between both the bass clef and the treble clef.
Get out your piano or keyboard and follow along for more hands-on practice as this will help you to visualize and retain the different notes and keys on the keyboard!
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Get out your piano or keyboard and follow along for more hands-on practice as this will help you to visualize and retain the different notes and keys on the keyboard!
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Barre Chord Basics
Learn all about barre chords and how they are played with this video tutorial. What exactly are barre chords and what makes them so interesting? They are simplistic chords that can be shifted anywhere up and down the neck while retaining the same shape. This allows you to hold the same shape with your hand while moving up and down the neck to play different chords. No need to change finger positions!
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How to Teach Piano to Kids
In this video tutorial you are introduced to productive ways of teaching piano to kids. Kids are not always the easiest students to work with but the good news is that if they have not yet had much experience on the piano, then they haven't yet had the chance to develop any bad habits. This gives you the perfect opportunity to guide and shape their piano-playing.
If you are involved with teaching piano lessons to young students, or are yourself just beginning on the piano, pay close attention to the methods and techniques described in this video. You'll no doubt learn some creative ways to approach the piano.
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If you are involved with teaching piano lessons to young students, or are yourself just beginning on the piano, pay close attention to the methods and techniques described in this video. You'll no doubt learn some creative ways to approach the piano.
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Proper Piano Playing Posture
When learning to play piano we often don't pay very close attention or even give much thought to our playing posture. Interestingly enough, your posture can be just as important as learning your first chords. If you practice bad habits, you may end up learning to play incorrectly, hindering yourself from progressing as well as you could.
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Pay close attention to how he describes proper hand placement, finger positioning, arm positioning and sitting posture in the video. Practice these habits and even make it a habit to concentrate on each of these posture exercises as you play. After you've practiced it enough times it will become second nature for you and you'll no longer even realize you're doing it!
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Learn Acoustic Blues Soloing
I liked this video for the method that he uses to show the simplicity of the basic acoustic E blues scale. The acoustic E blues scale is typically what a beginning guitarist is introduced to when learning the blues. By learning to play the basic open E blues scale, you will already have down the basics for a nice riff that you can then go in and add other "blues notes" and hammer-ons/pull-offs as he demonstrates.
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Practice this simple scale and then move it up the neck by barring your index finger across any fret to discover other bluesy scales and riffs.
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Basic Piano Improv
Learn how to improvise on the piano! This is a great video tutorial on how to choose random notes and apply basic left hand chords to them to create improvised songs. Notice how he uses only one finger on the right hand each time and then concentrates on the three finger chord with the left hand to match it.
With this basic pattern in mind you can move around anywhere on the keyboard and sound great doing it! Improv doesn't have to be complicated, you just need to pick out notes and match any type of corresponding chord to it.
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With this basic pattern in mind you can move around anywhere on the keyboard and sound great doing it! Improv doesn't have to be complicated, you just need to pick out notes and match any type of corresponding chord to it.
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Jimi Hendrix "Hey Joe" Guitar Solo Slowed Down
Listen to the classic solo for "Hey Joe" by Jimi Hendrix. It sounds like it's all over the place, right? Now watch the video demonstration below and pay close attention to where his hand moves around on the fretboard...it's actually staying in almost the same place between the 13th and 15th frets the entire time!
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The solo for "Hey Joe" is no doubt musically brilliant, but it's also actually quite simple. This video slows it way down for you and shows you the exact fingering positions for the entire solo including hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, etc. This is a great way to learn the correct notes before you begin to speed it up. Take the time to hit all of the notes and then continue to add in more of the vibrato and slides.
I'm sharing this video not only because it can teach you how to play "Hey Joe" with complete accuracy but also because it can teach you the fundamentals of soloing on the electric guitar. Although you can make it sound like there's a lot going on, you don't always have to be all over the neck. Keep it simple at first, learn to really work a solo between just a few frets and soon enough you'll be shredding like one of the greats!
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How to Read Piano Sheet Music
This video provides a visually detailed introduction into reading sheet music on the piano. This lesson is intended for beginners on the piano and those who are new to reading sheet music.
Pay close attention to where the notes are located on the music staff. As you can see, note names move up the scale alphabetically as you move up the staff. After watching this video lesson, you should be more familiar with music notes and their positions on the piano keyboard and music staff.
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Pay close attention to where the notes are located on the music staff. As you can see, note names move up the scale alphabetically as you move up the staff. After watching this video lesson, you should be more familiar with music notes and their positions on the piano keyboard and music staff.
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How to Play Lead Electric Blues Guitar
How to the lead blues guitarists do it, they make it look so easy!? -- Here's how.
This is an excellent video tutorial on soloing the blues in the style of BB King on the electric guitar. Blues soloing is comprised of various blues chords (which he demonstrates) and rhythms along with fills and solo licks made over those chords.
What I mean by "solo licks made over those chords" is positioning your hand as if you were to play a chord and then hitting notes which are a part of the pentatonic scale which makes up the chord. Put more simply, you just hit notes which sound appropriate to the chord (typically one or two frets up from the fret you are basing the bar of the chord on). This will take some practice to learn which notes sound right for the chord and which do not if you are unfamiliar with music theory.
Practice the different chord shapes and blues licks that he employs and then begin adding in some vibrato, hammer-ons, pull-offs and exaggerated bending. After you begin to feel more comfortable, start creating your own licks over chord patterns and see what you can come up with. This will help you to develop a more "improvisational" ear which is key to blues soloing.
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How to Play Romantic Piano
Here is a nice introduction to improvising romantic-sounding music and songs on the piano. The first half of the video is more pertinent to beginning pianists. Practice moving through the C, Fm and G chords while improvising notes with the right hand. This chord progression is at the "heart" of many romantic ballads and songs.
Here are representations of the C, Fm and G chords that he uses in the video.
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How to Replace Strings on the Acoustic Guitar
Here is a good video tutorial detailing proper string replacement on the acoustic guitar. All guitarists should know how to properly string their instrument as it can be very important to the longevity of their strings. This video aims to provide you with the tools and techniques that you need to lessen the stress of string replacement!
Remember to wind strings inside the tuning pegs (spin left pegs to the left and right pegs to the right when tightening).
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Remember to wind strings inside the tuning pegs (spin left pegs to the left and right pegs to the right when tightening).
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Learn Blues Improvisation on the Piano
This short video tutorial gets into a bit of blues improvisation on the piano. By playing off a typical blues scale (such as C blues scale in this example), you can easily add in fills and improvise to create a nice blues solo improvisation.
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This close-up look into blues soloing will teach you how to effectively take the concepts of blues improvisation to any type of blues music, just pick out the scale being used and have fun with it!
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Guitar Fingerpicking for Beginners
This video tutorial jumps right into fingerpicking for the beginning guitarist. It teaches you the terminology, notation and proper technique which first and foremost must be understood before you begin learning how to fingerpick.
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Remember to start out keeping your hand steadily hovered over the strings and then naturally pluck each string with the finger directly above it without moving your right hand. After it begins to feel more natural, try speeding it up a bit while concentrating on keeping your right hand steady and making your fingers do the work.
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How to Play "I See You" from Avatar on the Piano
Learn how to play "I See You" by Leona Lewis from the hugely popular film Avatar.
This video tutorial provides a slowed down overhead view of the pianist moving through the chords in the song. Also included are the notes for each chord as they play them.
Watch closely how the pianist moves through different chord changes with the right and left hands. This tutorial can also be a valuable lesson in chord progression and chord changes on the piano.
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The Holy Grail of Memorizing Guitar Chords-Part 2
Part 2 of the highly effective and helpful technique to memorize guitar chords. Remember not to "walk" the chords one at a time but "land" them all at once. It takes some practice but once you begin to utilize this technique regularly, you will begin to really see better results in memorizing and "grabbing" guitar chords however difficult they may be.
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The Holy Grail of Memorizing Guitar Chords-Part 1
The following video tutorial is not only good for beginner Guitarists, but for ANYONE wanting to quickly learn a new chord and remember it for good. I even tried this method for some of the more difficult chords that I don't really use that often and to my amazement, it works!
Who knew that memorizing Guitar chords could be so easy! By simply drawing a picture of the chord shape in your mind after forming the chord with your fingers, then a few repetitions and it's burnt into your memory.
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Give it a shot, I hope that you find this useful, I did!
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Quickly Tackle Minor Chords on the Piano - Video Tutorial
Here's part 2 of the basic piano chords lessons which help you to easily visualize minor chord shapes and remember how they are formed.
Keep in mind, minor chords are also very important to have under your belt along with the Major chords and once you do, you'll be able to play a large majority of songs out there! Sets of the diagrams that he is using are also available in our book selections.
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