Can't recommend this book enough, guys and gals. It really helped me. :D I concur. Jamie has published the keys to success. And the philosophy appl...
Why do I play? Because it's better than eating a bullet. :lol: I took off many years without playing my guitar and it is the one big regret that I do...
I have a CA Cargo. Very handy, sounds pretty good and travels easily.And a CA GXi. Awesome bass and sustain. Love it. And I'd be willing to leave it i...
At about 2:37 he mentions something about Steve Cropper using "chips" and playing barre chords. The barre chords I got, but what are "chips", if I he...
This is why I'm not taking the easy route and playing the easy play open chord version. Take the hard road. The open chord version sounds good, but ...
When I slide barre chords, the creaking and scratching on the bass strings sounds like Dracula's coffin lid opening. I think new, lighter strings are...
I am envious of the resources available to newcomers to guitar these days - wish GN had been around when I was starting out! Pocket calculators and di...
I thought it interesting that the data binning casts 0 lessons next to 2 years of lessons.I would have expected that it would be more distributed a...
And just when you think you have it under control..... a 12 string appears and the song needs a barre chord!(there's always something more to work o...
I figured out the broken link-Looks like the broken one doesn't it?pmacintyre/musicsurveyprelimresults.htm
Mostly the issue is beginner's lack of skillset.But string spacing IS a factor that affects developing skills. My niece's Epiphone acoustic has a very...
Here's Andreas' discussion of why it's important to learn songs. Several. It's all advice that may or may not have any meaning to a person at a given ...
it astounds me that you can spend hours learning a technique, but have no patience to learn a song (where you can accomplish learning a technique at t...
+1 to cnev's posting.Andreas offers both philosophy and techniques which I think are quite valuable. My playing has improved from using the technique...
Not that I know much about CAGED.... but the top 4 strings of a C shaped barr can be used LOTS of places such as hitting that pesky Eb you'd hoped t...