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White Belt: Level 1 Guitar Lessons |
Always Begin Here!
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What would you do if you knew in advance you could not fail? What is that secret element that separates good players from bad players, and great ones from good ones? You may be surprised by the answer. |
Category: White Belt
Subcategory: Goals
Published on: 09 Oct 2003
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Effective Practice
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This lesson will reveal some of the secrets that separate great players from the rest. The secret is in knowing how to practice, then doing it... consistently. What to practice varies with each player. We will focus here on the how to make the most of your practice time. |
Category: White Belt
Subcategory:
Published on: 09 Oct 2003
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Guitarist and Guitar Anatomy 101
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Parts are parts... or are they? In this short but important lesson, we just want to take a little time to pay attention to some details too often overlooked in keeping the guitarist and their guitars healthy. We want both you and your guitars to be around for a very long time. |
Category: White Belt
Subcategory:
Published on: 09 Oct 2003
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Knowing your Guitar Neck like the Back of your Hand
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Want to learn a valuable skill that your friends probably won't? Commit now to learn something that most self-taught guitar players never learn. This skill will enable later learning of reading music by sight. |
Category: White Belt
Subcategory:
Published on: 09 Oct 2003
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Musical Vitamins for Guitar Players
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To always be ready for peak performance, we need to be sharp and at our best physically, mentally and spiritually. This lesson will give us a complete list of musical Vitamins, that when taken in recommended doses will help us to enable us to absorb the music we ingest, process it, and derive energy from it. Musical vitamins also help us grow, stave off disease that can afflict musicians and heal ourselves musically. |
Category: General
Subcategory: Peak Performance
Published on: 09 Oct 2003
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Ongoing Growth: Horizontally and Vertically
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A black belt guitar player should be both wide and deep, as explained in the sections below. Also the black belt guitar player should be continually expanding both horizontally and vertically. This lesson has a few ideas to keep you growing and make you a wider and deeper player. |
Category: General
Subcategory: Peak Performance
Published on: 09 Oct 2003
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Open Dominant 7th Chords
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In this lesson you will add more open chords to your library. These chords are similar to those you have already learned, but the addition of the dominant 7th chord will add funk, and flair to your playing. At the end of this lesson, you'll have 21 of the most popular chords in music at your disposal! |
Category: White Belt: Chords
Subcategory: Chord Charts
Published on: 09 Oct 2003
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Open Major Chords
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These are the first 7 chords that every beginning guitar student should master. Play these chords comfortably, and you'll be able to play almost any beginning-level song. |
Category: White Belt: Chords
Subcategory: Chord Charts
Published on: 09 Oct 2003
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Open Minor Chords
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In this lesson you will double the number of open chords you have already learned, by adding the natural complement to the major chord series. When you learn the major and minor chords together, you will be able to play the accompaniment to most popular songs ever written. |
Category: White Belt: Chords
Subcategory: Chord Charts
Published on: 09 Oct 2003
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Perfect Intervals: Pillars of Western Music
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Of all the intervals in our Western scale, the perfect intervals are the ones that act as the anchors for all the other intervals to swirl around in music. Learn to recognize them by ear, and you will have a solid foundation on which to build your later understanding of chords, scales and progressions. |
Category: White Belt: Ear Training
Subcategory: Intervals
Published on: 10 Oct 2003
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Rhythm Melody Harmony: The Basis of All Theory
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 At the heart of every lesson and every practice session there should be an awareness of three vital and essential forces in all music. Learning how to manipulate these forces will give your music and performances tremendous depth, clarity and power. |
Category: White Belt: Theory
Subcategory: Music Elements
Published on: 21 Apr 2004
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Set Management: A Must-Have in Performing
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Even when you have learned 1000 songs, and have achieved superstar status... the most you'll ever be able to play for an audience in one concert is about 20. Most gigs we play while coming up through the ranks are much shorter, so what you don't play is as important as what you do play. This lesson will help you polish your performances to knock the socks off your audience. |
Category: General
Subcategory: Peak Performance
Published on: 09 Oct 2003
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The Essence and Importance of Flow
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Listening to music, we hardly notice how music flows from one measure or from one phrase or section to the next. But playing flowing music requires many months of study and training. Developing timing and flow cannot be rushed any more in music than in learning a new language. It takes time, effort, practice, trials, errors and reinforcement and celebration of successes. |
Category: General
Subcategory: Wednesday
Published on: 26 Jan 2005
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Tuning Your Guitar
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The purpose of this lesson is to help you keep your guitar in tune so that it sounds optimal for the kind of playing you do. Unless you know how to tune across all strings, and along the whole neck of the guitar, you may find that your guitar sounds good when playing an open C chord, but when playing the same C chord as a bar chord on the 8th fret, it sounds out of tune. |
Category: White Belt
Subcategory:
Published on: 09 Oct 2003
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Want to Turbocharge your Guitar Learning Abilities?
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Effective Learning habits and methods can teach you how to transform any idle time into quality practice time whether you have your guitar or not. This reference will teach you how to effectively learn to play your instrument... even when you don't have your instrument with you. You can potentially be learning to play guitar 24 hours a week, even if you only have a guitar in hand for 5 or 6 hours a week. |
Category: General
Subcategory: Learning
Published on: 13 Oct 2003
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Your Attention Channels
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This lesson gives some ideas that help to boost concentration. By gaining total control over our ability to concentrate, we open the physical, mental and physical channels that allow music to flow freely. |
Category: General
Subcategory: Concentration
Published on: 06 Jul 2004
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