Hey, it’s Arpeggio day! In this lesson we’re going to change it up by doing some Guitar Arpeggios and sequences for guitar. You can grab these guitar arpeggios in PDF, TAB, or download below. If you missed the first 2 installments of the guitar practice routine, you can find them here: 7 Day Guitar Practice Routine: Day 1 – Warmups7 Day Guitar Practice Routine: Day 2 – Modal Workout Guitar Arpeggios Table of Contents If …
Benefits of Learning Music for Kids and Young Children
What do you do when your kid is enthusiastic about playing a guitar. What about another musical instrument such as piano or violin? Or, (yikes) drums? The are so many benefits of learning music for kids despite the challenges that can arise as a parent. Very few of us look forward to the prospect of listening to children practice a screechy violin or tunelessly practice the recorder. Nevertheless, once they get a little better, it …
20 Essential Picking Exercises For Guitar
Alternate picking for guitarists may seem like something we all take for granted. Most guitarists, even complete beginners alternate some down and up strokes naturally whether they are consciously doing it or not. As we develop our picking hand, alternate picking can open a whole new world of techniques and music not obtainable otherwise. Even if you’re familiar with alternate picking, it can often be helpful to go back and work on the basics. Sometimes …
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Five Essential Warm-Up Exercises for Guitar
Guitar warm-ups are an essential part of playing guitar or really any musical instrument, especially as we get older. Warming up both hands prior to a long practice session, rehearsal, or gig is essential. Guitar warm-up exercises build strength and dexterity while also helping to prevent common injuries such as carpal tunnel syndrome. These types of guitar exercises can be deceptively simple to learn, yet technically complex to master. Despite being done in only 10-15 …
Tech To Protect Your Guitars
Imagine one of your guitars being stolen. 😭Do you have the serial # handy?Some good pictures?Any idea when it happened?Will the Police even care when you report it? How can you use tech to protect your guitars? Using Tech to Protect Your Guitars Like so many of us, I woke up this morning to a slew of weekend sale ads in my email inbox. I’m sure I’m not the only one to delete, delete, delete… …
Alternate Picking Exercises for Guitarists
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Table of Contents Introduction Often when I improvise using arpeggios on guitar, I like to add more scale tones to the typical triads or CAGED shape arpeggios in any given key. There a few reasons why you might want to add some extra notes to your arpeggios on the guitar: What is An Arpeggio? If you need a refresher lesson, I did one a while back on standard diatonic arpeggios for guitar you can check …
How To Choose Your First Guitar
In 2024, the guitar is the most popular instrument in the world. Regardless of your age, if you’re looking to learn to play the guitar, you should take the time to choose the right first guitar. Choosing a guitar however, can sometimes be confusing and overwhelming for any new guitarist. There are countless styles available for both electric and acoustic guitars. When you walk into a musical instrument store, you can easily get lost in …