I was looking for guitar accessories today and I came across a very interesting new product – The V-Pick. What is it? The V-Pick is a specially created guitar pick made of clear acrylic. The fantastic part is that after you’ve held it in your fingers for a while, the pick actually ‘sticks’ to your…
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Exercises To Develop Your Alternate Picking Technique
Guitar Exercises I’ve recently posted an article with exercises to help you develop high speed alternate picking. To most beginners who learn to play the guitar, alternate picking can feel rather unnatural and comfortable – They tend to lean towards the hybrid picking technique where each string is picked in a non-uniform manner ( ie….
Power Chords For Guitar – Power Chord Exercises
Power chords for guitar are extremely easily to learn and use. The good news is, as a beginner, you’ll just need to learn two power chord shapes and you can start riffing away with your electric guitar in any key you want because the shapes do not change – you just move the shapes up…
String Bending Lesson – Learn How To Bend And Why
What Is String Bending? String bending is the act of picking a note on your guitar and bending the string upwards or downwards to get a higher pitch. Why do we need to learn how to bend strings? The answer is because it brings character to our songs. Rather than just picking a higher note…
Guitar Practicing Mindset – Terry Syrek Words Out
For those of you beginners who want to learn to shred, practicing with the end in mind is crucial to your success. Today, I came across a great little blog post titled ” Terry Syrek on Concentration ” from The Practice Room blog. I thought this particular article would be really apply to beginner guitar…