10 articles on "fret"

Online Flamenco Guitar Lessons for Beginners: Left-hand Positions

Establish a good foundation for your left-hand technique by remembering these basic points: 1. Keep your fingertips perpendicular to the guitar strings: Put your fingers on the strings, near the frets, but not near enough to muffle the sound. There ...

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How To Stretch Your Fingers On The Guitar

Right, so you want to learn how to stretch your fingers on the guitar. There a few great exercises that I teach that help my students stretch there fingers. When you first start playing it's really hard to make that chord sound good, or that sca...

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Tuning Your Guitar

As a beginner, it's good to get into the habit of tuning your guitar by ear rather than with an electronic tuner. This helps develop your musical hearing as well as not leaving you in a fix when you're in a situation where no one brought a ...

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Guitarists - Use Your Neck, Not Your Head!

Want to expand your versatility on the guitar? Don't use your head use your neck!We're going to use a "G" chord and a G major pentatonic to illustrate how we can use 5 basic chord shapes to move up and down the neck of the guitar.These 5 b...

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A Guitar Lesson To Help You Test Your Note Knowledge.

In this guitar lesson we look at a great way to test your note knowledge of the guitar fretboard. But before we look at that, why even bother learning the notes? Knowing the notes on your guitar fretboard is an essential skill. Here are a FEW of the ...

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A Guitar Lesson To Help You Test Your Note Knowledge

A Guitar Lesson To Help You Test Your Note Knowledge by: Craig Bassett In this guitar lesson we look at a great way to test your note knowledge of the guitar fretboard. But before we look at that, why even bother learning the notes? Knowing the ...

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Building A Good Relationship With Your Guitar

Building A Good Relationship With Your Guitar by: Ismael D. Tabije The guitar is considered the friendliest musical instrument there is. It is because the guitar is the handiest musical instrument that could stand on its own. A group can enjoy m...

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Guitar-Tuning Methods Made Easy

The easiest way to tune your guitar is by relative tuning. Relative tuning is comparing the sound and pitch of adjacent strings. The string with the higher pitch is tuned to match the sound of the lower string. In this method, there is the assumptio...

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Guitarists Don't Use Your Head, Use Your Neck!

Guitarists Don't Use Your Head, Use Your Neck! by: Joey Robichaux Want to expand your versatility on the guitar? Don't use your head use your neck! We're going to use a "G" chord and a G major pentatonic to illustrate how we can...

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Finger Stretch Exercises For Guitar - Increase Your Finger Flexibility With These Tips

Every guitarist wants to have speedy, nimble fingers. As a beginner you may feel like you're trying to play with four vienna sausages on your left hand. But here's some easy tips to work on stretching out those muscles and tendons so you ca...

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