Thursday Tips
Singing Tips To Build Your Confidence
Yes, I know, singing can be intimidating, but it goes so beautifully with your guitar playing. From Making Music Magazine, here’s 8 Tips To Help Build Your Singing Confidence. Sing your songs, loud and proud!
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Marlene
Play ‘September Song’ in September!
This is a beautiful song that's perfect to play this month, or any time. It's called September Song by JP Cooper and it's basically played with 4 chords; A, Bm* (B minor), G and D as you can see here in this tab. Song-of-the-month!
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Marlene
*I recommend you play the Bm like this
How To ‘Slap’ The Strings While Fingerpicking
Try ‘string slapping’ with your picking. Fingerpicking is beautiful and fun to play, and incorporating a ‘slap’ into your pattern adds a unique percussive element to your music ~ as seen in this Acoustic Guitar article/video How To Play Fingerpicking with a String Slap. It’s slap happy guitar playing!
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Marlene
Easy Warm Up Exercises To Do Before You Play
Warming up your fingers before you play your songs is like stretching before you exercise, you’ll find that your fingers are more nimble and better prepared to play. There’s some pretty simple exercises you can do like the ones seen here in this Acoustic Guitar video. Stretch your playing abilities by warming up!
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Marlene
How Live Music Can Make You A Better Musician
Live music has so many benefits that can enhance and improve your playing abilities/styles. In fact, this Making Music Magazine article gives you 12 Reasons Live Music Will Make You A Better Musician. For me, numbers 1 and 8 really resonate!
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Marlene
How A Guitar Works
Do you know how string thickness, tension, length and frequency affect the sound? Learn how a guitar works in this interesting and informative video How Instruments Work ~ Guitar*.
Got guitar vibes?!
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Marlene
*This video is the work of learning design and development firm ansrsource for the MIM (Musical Instrument Museum).
Woodstock 50 Years Ago ~ Acoustic Guitars At Woodstock
In honor of the 50th Anniversary of Woodstock I thought you might enjoy reading this Acoustic Guitar article, Cataloging the Acoustic Guitars at Woodstock. It describes the acoustic guitars used by Arlo Guthrie, Richie Havens, Joan Baez and more, including videos of their performances. Peace, Love & Acoustic Guitars!
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Marlene
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