Beginner's Guide to Playing Guitar

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    16. Basic Guitar Chord Techniques
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    Learning how strumming guitar chords resembles raking leaves: easy does it. Check out this lesson and discover techniques for producing an open, whole sound.

    Learning how strumming guitar chords resembles raking leaves: easy does it. Check out this lesson and discover techniques for producing an open, whole sound.

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    17. Tip: Play Guitar with Curled Knuckles
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    Here’s a small tip that will last a lifetime of guitar playing: curl the last knuckle of each fretting finger. Watch and discover the importance of the curl.

    Here’s a small tip that will last a lifetime of guitar playing: curl the last knuckle of each fretting finger. Watch and discover the importance of the curl.

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    18. Advice for Beginning Guitar Players
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    Don’t think you’re cut out for playing guitar? Think again! Everyone gets frustrated. Listen to these words of advice; they will urge you to keep on pickin’.

    Don’t think you’re cut out for playing guitar? Think again! Everyone gets frustrated. Listen to these words of advice; they will urge you to keep on pickin’.

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    19. The 9 Essential Guitar Chords
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    So you want to be a rock ‘n' roll star? This lesson gives you the tools you need to play hundreds of songs on the guitar. All it takes is nine simple chords.

    So you want to be a rock ‘n' roll star? This lesson gives you the tools you need to play hundreds of songs on the guitar. All it takes is nine simple chords.

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    20. How to Change Chords on Guitar
    A lesson with Erich Andreas
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    Almost every song played on the guitar involves some sort of chord progression. Check out this lesson on how to transition from one guitar chord to another.

    Almost every song played on the guitar involves some sort of chord progression. Check out this lesson on how to transition from one guitar chord to another.

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Cool dude thanks
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David G
My first instructor did not introduce curling knuckles to me. no wonder I sounded like a plucker... DLG
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