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Playing Guitar With Joint Pain

ezineYears ago I played guitar with bands doing gigs on what I lovingly refer to as the "Juke Joint" circuit. Little dives, honky tonks and watering holes catering to the crowd that works hard, and parties harder.

In many of these "joints", a tequila induced transformation would take place somewhere on the south side of midnight, and invariably, the warm fuzziness of friends having fun would be replaced by feuds and fisticuffs.

As a guitar player on stage I did my best to avoid these late night free-for-alls and just play the gig while the "joint" started rockin', but there were occasions when landing in the middle of a brawl was simply un-avoidable.

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How to Teach Yourself Guitar - 6 Easy Steps

ezineMillions of people dream of learning how to play guitar. For many, it's an un-quenched passion lying dormant for years just waiting for the right spark to come along and light the flame.

And when it finally does, the number one question is, "how do I get started"?

There are a number of avenues you can take to learn how to play guitar - private lessons, books, DVDs, online lessons and home study courses - but sometimes beginning guitarists choose to "go it alone".

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Taking Guitar Lessons From the Saxophone

ezineLead guitar is very "lick" and "riff" oriented. A lick or riff is simply a series of notes that we play within the confines of the musical scale of the key of the song we are in.

By using various techniques such as string bends, pull-offs, hammer-ons, trills, slides and more - we can come up with an endless combination lead possibilities.

As a result, we as guitar players, have a tendency to become fixated on the "execution" of cool little licks and riffs - which can sometimes lead us away from focusing on playing "melodically".

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Why Guitar Strings Break

ezineMany times, new guitarists purchase a guitar, take it home, and play it for months (or years), on the original set of strings. Then one day, they're strumming along, and...snap!

Often, that first experience of breaking a guitar string can verge on the traumatic. Like something on the guitar itself has broken and is damaged.

The truth is, strings are meant to break. They have a limited lifespan and beyond that, can become fairly useless in terms of tone.

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How to Spice Up Your "A" Chord on Guitar

ezineIn an earlier discussion we talked about the fact that with many open chords there are "movements" or extra notes that you can play around a chord while remaining in one position.

In today's discussion we want to take a look at doing something very similar, but instead of playing single notes around a chord to produce a "movement", here we want to look at creating a movement that involves playing multiple notes simultaneously around a stationary chord.

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