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Beginner Guitar Lessons: Barre Chords
Barre chords are an essential building block in guitar playing. These simple chord shapes can be used anywhere on the fretboard and can form the base for your own songs.
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Beginner Guitar Lessons: String bends
You know how to play a few chords, but what's next? TG's beginner guitar lessons are here to walk you through the essentials. Here we look at string bends.
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Beginner Guitar Lessons: Playing scales
Learn how to play a scale both evenly and accurately with good technique.
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Beginner Guitar Lessons: The pentatonic scale
Let's get one thing straight: you don't need to know a lot of scales to be a good guitarist. In fact, if you've been playing for under a year you could quite safely get away with only knowing one scale: the minor pentatonic scale.
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Beginner Guitar Lessons: Alternate picking
TG's going to take an educated guess here and say that if no-one's told you how to pick it's likely that you use downstrokes exclusively. This tends to be the default technique for new guitarists.
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Beginner Guitar Lessons: Changing chords
You know how to play a few chords, but what's next? TG's beginner guitar lessons are here to walk you through the essentials.
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Beginner Guitar Lessons: Ear training
If you can hear the difference between these two chords you'll be on the way to being able to work out songs by ear - a valuable tool for any guitarist.
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