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!
View the video below to see how:
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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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