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• What Are The Characteristics Of Great Guitarists - A Complicated Technique Or Great Fundamentals?
  A martial arts approach for learning blues guitar! We have all heard the story of the martial arts student who searched out the greatest master to learn from, who was turned away constantly until finally being accepted, only to find that he was asked to repeat very simple moves for many months.
  Published 14Oct2011, viewed 214 times

• How The Different Guitar String Types Affect Picking Techniques And Sound
  Doc Watson, and most other flat pickers (that means players who use a plectrum instead of their fingers) tend to use medium gauge guitar strings, either 80-20 bronze, or phosphor bronze.
  Published 14Oct2011, viewed 204 times

• Blues Music Employs The Elemental Beat Of African Drums - A Brief Study Of The Early Blues Rhythms
  Playing blues guitar in a modern world is a strange thing to do. Even the very poorest of us in the Western world are so much more well off than the old legends who single handedly created the music that was the foundation of all jazz, rock and pop music of today. Even with the help of blues guitar tabs, it's difficult for us to grasp that feeling.
  Published 09Oct2011, viewed 217 times

• Make Some Effort To Search For The Most Effective Blues Guitar Instruction
  When starting out to search for those perfect guitar lessons, most of us used to go to the big 'G', and 'Google it'. More and more searches for all kinds of things are made on Youtube, in fact it's the second most popular search engine after Google itself.
  Published 07Oct2011, viewed 209 times

• How To Use Guitar Tabs For Learning Finger Picking Blues Guitar
  The correct use of guitar tablature is a great help in learning songs of all kinds on guitar, but particularly when finger picking blues guitar. Most pro guitarists testify that it's possible to learn new material twice as fast as when just learning by ear, and trial and error.
  Published 03Sep2011, viewed 302 times

• Ensuring A Great Blues Guitar Performance In Public
  It would be easy to think that great blues men churn out a memorable performance off the cuff, or just by chance, as it were. Of course, mostly this is just not the case. First of all, bear in mind that he or she is unconsciously drawing upon many years of practical experience that is constantly shaping what you see and hear.
  Published 04Sep2011, viewed 281 times

• Acoustic Guitar Strings And Things
  Most guitarists have a kind of a running battle with their strings, apart from the normal issues relating to keeping them in tune. The questions are rife for the student guitarist. It's not sufficient that we have to learn this intricate stuff, but on top of that, our fingers hurt and we are not sure if we are using the right strings or not!
  Published 03Sep2011, viewed 166 times

• The Ragtime Guitar Of Reverend Gary Davis
  Often it's the small things that guitarists include that make all the difference. Many of us have played Candy Man by Gary Davis, for a long time, with various degrees of success. I've played this for years, and then I decided to take a closer look to see what's going on.
  Published 08Sep2011, viewed 195 times

• Learning Blues Guitar - Breaking Through To A Higher Level
  Don't worry - it's natural for your learning curve to stop now and again. Every musician, regardless what the musical preference, recognizes the symptoms. Suddenly it dawns on you that you've played the same piece for some weeks, and you're not getting better.
  Published 08Sep2011, viewed 292 times

• The Best Method For Learning Blues Guitar - Tablature Or Standard Musical Notation?
  In the 60s, Stephan Grossman and others produced a form of musical notation for guitar that was peculiar to those times. Many of the original blues men were dead and gone by this time, but a notable few remained, such as Son House, Mississippi John Hurt, Lightnin' Hopkins and Reverend Gary Davis.
  Published 13Sep2011, viewed 348 times

• Blues Men From Carolina
  My favorite old blues guitar me are mostly unsung heroes who had their origins in Carolina - Floyd Council, Pink Anderson ( Pink Floyd borrowed their names for their rock group in the sixties ) and Scrapper Blackwell.
  Published 24Aug2011, viewed 179 times

• The Important Components Of The Best Guitar Lesson Videos
  A search on the internet for guitar tuition in video format can turn out to be a formidable activity, even more so for the fledgling student with no idea of what he needs. What are the most desirable features of the most effective courses available? As you might think, it's quite easy to identify common components that could assist us make the right choice.
  Published 29Jul2011, viewed 286 times

• The Hidden Gem In The World Of Parlor Guitars - The V300 From Vintage Guitars
  The V300 Parlor from Vintage was recently nominated best guitar under $1000 by Acoustic Guitar Magazine and you can believe it. For an inexpensive guitar, it's got an amazingly great tone, with a lived-in sound. The wood is good quality The top is spruce and a neck of nato which is fast to play. The bridge is made from rosewood and there are twenty frets with 14 accessible.
  Published 11Aug2011, viewed 502 times

• Do You Want To Play Authentic Blues Guitar - What's The Difference ?
  How did the old blues guitarists make their wonderful sound? How can we play authentic acoustic blues guitar - 'the real deal' ? In this article I'm going to take a look at some classic blues mens styles and how we can learn their finger picking techniques.
  Published 25Jul2011, viewed 366 times

• Do I Honestly Need A Two Thousand Dollar Guitar To Play Blues?
  It's really commonplace for folks to consider that the make of guitar someone uses to play blues music is really vital to the performance.
  Published 25Jul2011, viewed 424 times

• A Rough Guide For Adjusting The Playability Of An Acoustic Guitar - Action and Truss Rod Adjustments
  Guitar "action" just signifies the distance of the string over the twelfth fret, and a reasonably low action is important for any acoustic blues guitarists. If you wante to perform several, then you should aim for a medium action. If it's not high enough the strings will make a buzzing sound - if they are too high it will be hard to fret the strings.
  Published 24Jul2011, viewed 967 times

• Martin 000X1 Guitar Review - A Guitar For The Blues
  The Martin 000X1 is a low budget guitar in the well known Martin stable and gives a great sound for an instrument this size. Similar instruments of these dimensions are theTaylor: 110 Larrivée: OM-03 SP and Blueridge BR-43. You can find many positive reviews of the 000X1 on the internet, and you can take them at their word.
  Published 03Aug2011, viewed 892 times

• Youtube - The Biggest Resource For Blues Guitar Lessons
  If you have a passion for learning the blues guitar, then a search for blues guitar lessons on good old will show you hundreds of free streamed lessons to start you off learning acoustic blues. For the majority students learning guitar techniques, watching a video can be almost as good as a live teacher.
  Published 31Jul2011, viewed 442 times

• So You Want To Play The Blues. First Of All, You Need To Choose Your Style
  There won't be too many folks who hear a blues man perform a tear jerking riff on the guitar and not want to do the same thing. There is something very cool attached to it that is more than the physical movements. The first thing we have to do is choose what genre of blues guitar we'd want to play. This is crucial - there is a lot of practice time in front of you, so you should enthusiastic about your chosen style.
  Published 31Jul2011, viewed 277 times

• Blues Guitar Lessons In Your Town? You Could Try Guitar Courses Found On The Web - A Course Review
  I submitted the following phrase into Google - blues guitar lessons - in my own town - and it returned with a couple of million results. It's true that it's an obvious opening shot to attempt to locate a blues guitar teacher locally who can teach you face to face, but there can be problems. You cant' be sure how good the instructor may be. Is there a great pack of lessons available on the internet?
  Published 28Jul2011, viewed 315 times

• An Accurate Way To Tune Your Guitar
  Tuning the guitar is probably one of the most important things we need to know and has to be achieved before we can learn how to make music. It may be very frustrating. Even when we tune the strings, we often hear that the sound isn't quite accurate enough - sometimes it can sound definitely bad! What's more, we can hear that the strings seem in tune when playing some chords, but not when strumming others.
  Published 25Jul2011, viewed 318 times

• Acoustic Blues Guitar - How Did Ragtime Guitar Develop?
  We have all heard of ragtime guitar and ragtime music in general, but where did it come from? In this article we take a look at the relationship between the piano and guitar, and a few of the people instrumental in developing this fascinating genre of music.
  Published 23Jul2011, viewed 341 times

• The Time I Ran Into A Real Blues Legend - But Dreams Are Never What We Imagine.
  We often dream about a blues legend and most of us never have the opportunity. Often, when we have our dream fulfilled, it's not really what we expected - read on ...
  Published 05Jul2011, viewed 243 times

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