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- Modes - Part 1
[Arts-and-Entertainment] Mastering the modes is the best way to add color to your lead playing. All the great modern guitar players, from Satriani to Hammett to Vai, have a through command of the modes.
- Sight Reading
[Arts-and-Entertainment] Improving sight reading is: Learning to learn faster through memory. Certain rhythms, tone sequences, chord voicings, tend to become standardized. Once you have seen a rhythm pattern of four eighth notes in a row, you've seen them all.
- The Value Of Scales
[Arts-and-Entertainment] Scales are NOT music, but a means for making music. They are predictable, orderly, and sequential, but do not contain the life force found in a strong melodic statement.
- The Three Second Guitarist
[Arts-and-Entertainment] You have exactly three seconds or less to capture your listener's attention or you have lost them forever!
- The Theory Of Music Theory
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Music] So, what's the big deal? Why does everyone suggest that you learn a bunch of music theory? Why is it always a part of your course load, even if you don't plan to be a theorist? Well, it all boils down to communication. Understanding the fundamentals of our language is useful in much the same way than an understanding of English language is useful - it allows you to communicate effectively.
- Accelerate Your Guitar Playing
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Music] First, define your objectives and determine your approach. These objectives may change as you progress, but a goal is important before starting to play the guitar.
- Attitude - It Can Be Your Key To Success! (Part Two)
[Self-Improvement:Positive-Attitude] One of the most damaging obstacles to excellence in even the most ambitious students is "lack of practice". It is best to call this inefficiency and see it as a psychological rather than a physical handicap.
- Attitude - It Can Be Your Key To Success!
[Self-Improvement:Positive-Attitude] Most guitar students sincerely desire to learn their instrument. Countless persons, however, inhibit their own progress with useless fears and thought patterns which manifest themselves in a quick decline in both practice and confidence.
- Origins Of "Non-Classical" Guitar
[Arts-and-Entertainment] In 1865 a number of Portuguese arrived to work the mighty Pioneer Sugar Plantations and through them, the island musicians were exposed to the first "non-classical" guitar styles - some 50 - 60 years before it moved into the limelight of American popular music.
- The Classical Guitar-an Overview-and Origins Of "Non-Classical" Guitar Part 1
[Arts-and-Entertainment] Until approximately 1800A.D., everything to do with guitar playing and manufacture was in a state of flux. Tunings varied from country to country - different makers favored different numbers of strings.
- History Of The Spanish and Classical Guitar
[Arts-and-Entertainment] With the coming of the Renaissance, inspired in part by Moslem learning brought home by returning Crusaders, the lute become the favorite instrument of Western Europe.
- The History And Background Of The Guitar
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Music] Compared to some musical instruments, the guitar is a relative newcomer dating from the Middle Ages. It’s origins, go back to long before the beginnings of recorded history.
- When I Grow Up I Want To Play Guitar
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Music] The secret to becoming a really good guitar player is, start playing and never stop. There's only two steps. Decide to do it. Do it.
- How To Tune Your Guitar By Ear
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Music] Some things on guitar can be learned in minutes, some in days, and others in weeks, but tuning will sometimes take even longer, because you have to train your ears. If results come slowly or don't seem to be making any progress, don't be discouraged, just keep working at it.
- How To Play Three Chord Songs On Guitar
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Music] Sooner or later you are going to take your guitar along to a casual sing-a-long type jam and hope that someone will start singing in the only key you know. It happens to everyone, the chart at the end of this article and let a little light in.
- Everything You Wanted To Know about Guitar Strings
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Music] Worn strings are by far the most common cause of a bad tone and contribute to a lot of tuning problems. These simple tips will help you get the most out of your guitar.
- How To Be Successful At Practicing The Guitar
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Music] Practice: to work on something repeatedly for the purpose of improvement. That says a lot. It tells you what to do (work), how (repeatedly), and why (to improve). Onceyou understand what “practice” is, you can proceed to learn how to use this new tool to your best advantage.
- Guitar Teachers: Studying With A Private Teacher
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Music] A good teacher can teach us what we want to know, however they cannot teach us what to want to know! The most important person in the learning process is the student. In the final analysis, each one of us determines to a great degree how much we will learn.
- Betting the NFL Moneyline
[Recreation-and-Sports:Football] The point spread. It’s the bread and butter of sports gambling, the reason football is far-and-away to most popular sport to wager on. But with parity in the NFL on the rise, the money line is becoming an increasingly attractive option for your Sunday selections.
- Bookies Adjust To Rash of Unders in NFL Week One
[Recreation-and-Sports:Football] Thanks in part to three opening-week shutouts, total players with a preference for the under enjoyed a profitable start to the NFL season and week two totals indicate that the books have been quick to react.
- Sopranos Wagering Can Add To The Excitement Of The New Season
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Movies-TV] After a break of nearly two years, fans of the Sopranos don’t need much incentive to tune in when the program resumes Sunday but there is another reason to watch this season and it might even add a little more juice to the viewing experience. Sopranos wagering is getting very popular and is offered at some of the best online sportsbooks.
- NHL Rule Changes Affect Hockey Betting
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Casino-Gambling] While most gamblers would bet on a cockroach race if they thought they could collect with any regularity the same cannot be said for wagering on the National Hockey League which attracts a very small percentage of the betting dollar. Significant rule changes, however, have resulted in significant changes in betting on hockey -- changes which might make wagering on NHL action a more attractive option in the future.
- With Futures Betting, Shopping For Value Is Key
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Casino-Gambling] There are several reasons the casual bettor stays away from futures wagers, but the main reason is that they don’t want to have their money tied up for the course of an entire season. But some bettors have found value in playing futures and some lucky bettors have had huge paydays by picking a longshot early in the season.
- NFL Moneylines Becoming More Popular With Bettors
[Recreation-and-Sports] Thanks at least in part to growing parity in the NFL betting the moneyline is becoming an increasingly attractive option to the point spread -- especially when selecting underdogs.
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