Speed Building Exercise

Speed building exercise with free backing tracks and video. One string exercise helps you improve your alternate picking, position shifts, left hand speed and dexterity. And it’s fun!

Fretting Hand Tips

Fretting hand advice with pictures. Are you making things harder for yourself by holding the guitar badly.

Practice Session 4 – Chord Tones

Guitar Practice Session 4 – Chord tones in the key of C major Following on from part 3, here are some patterns based around the lower strings.

Practice Session 3 – Chord Tones

Guitar Practice Session 3 – Chord tones in the key of C major In the first two practice sessions we used the common I-IV-V chord progression in C major to practice playing chord tones. Now we will do the same thing again but use all of the (triad) chords in the key.

Practice Session 2 – Chord Tones

Guitar Practice Session 2 – The I IV V Progression in C major In part 1 we broke down the top three strings of the C, F and G major chords around the third fret. Once you have spent a little bit of time on part 1 you can now go about playing around with [...]

Practice Session 1 – Chord Tones

Guitar Practice Session 1 – The I IV V Progression in C major The I IV V progression is no doubt the most common chord progression. It’s been used for years and is still used today in thousands of songs in virtually all genres. In this session we are going to get used to the [...]

The CAGED Guitar System

The Caged guitar system is a handy method for finding your way around the fretboard and relating scales to chords. Here it is in a nutshell.

Barre Chords Explained

Barre chords are among the most important guitar chords to learn. Here they are explained with diagrams.

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