How to Practice + Happy Birthday Guitar Arrangement beginning guitarist classical guitar jared's top picks practice strategy & outlook solo guitar / fingerstyle solo guitar arrangement pack pieces Dec 15, 2020

Don’t miss this golden practice advice about deliberate practice and consistency. Also, get my FREE Happy Birthday Guitar Fingerstyle Arrangement: FREE PDF

Sound Guitar Lessons turns 1 this week!

Exactly one year ago this week I posted my first lesson video.

To celebrate I decided to take...

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Minor Scale Chords Guitar Lesson - Learn how the hits used them chord theory series: how to learn guitar chords - beginner to advanced chords free download: chords with color jared's top picks modes music theory song learning Nov 24, 2020

In this minor scale chords guitar lesson you'll learn the music theory of chords in minor keys and how I recommend you practice them on the guitar.

I remember having a conversation with other musicians at a social gathering many years ago. 

Um... okay, yes we were talking about music theory...

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Guitar String Bending Tips blues related free download: top 3 pentatonic patterns improvisation jared's top picks lead guitar technique Sep 29, 2020

This lesson is about bending notes on guitar with my top 5 guitar string bending tips. It offers solutions to common guitar string bending problems.


0:00 - Intro
0:28 - Tip #1: Support
1:14 - Tip #2: Starting Pitch
2:03 - Tip #3: Stop at the Peak
4:44 - Tip #4: Intonate
5:36 - Tip #5: Hook Next...

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How to Master Guitar Scales (5 levels) free download: top 3 pentatonic patterns improvisation jared's top picks music theory scales Feb 11, 2020

There’s a reason scale diagrams are so popular: because it’s relatively straightforward to sound good improvising within a scale while looking at a diagram.
 
But to get to the next level of music knowledge on the fretboard we need to learn how to rapidly switch between scales,...
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The Secret to Solo Guitar Playing (and making it sound smooth) classical guitar jared's top picks solo guitar / fingerstyle technique Jan 28, 2020

Playing "solo guitar” means that we’re playing multiple parts at once: melody, harmony, and bass. 
 
Sometimes even multiple melodies at once. 
 
But when we try to play solo guitar using old habits left over from strumming chords, it ends up sounding stiff and...
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Melodies on guitar - writing melody over chords free download: chords with color jared's top picks music theory songwriting / composing Jan 14, 2020

When songwriting on the guitar it’s easy to get stuck on one idea that sounds good and not be able to break away from it. 
 
When we finally finish a song it might end up not feeling like it goes anywhere, or several of our songs might turn out sounding very similar to each...
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