Everything You Need to Know About Reading Guitar Tab

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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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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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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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.

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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