These lessons are the essence of what I wish I had learned in the first year or so of playing guitar. To create these lessons I spent several days thinking and writing about what I’ve discovered over the past 32 years that holds guitar students back. I initially came up with 30 pages of material. ...…
Hi there, I’m Thomas Michaud, and this is Part Three of my series, The Ten Most Important Guitar Chords for Beginners. In the last two parts we did eight chords and this is the last two chords, but I’m also going to give you some exercises to practice the chords. That’s really important, so let’s ...…
This is Part 2 of a 3 part series. If you haven’t watched part 1 yet you can find it here: http://www.starlandguitar.com/10-important-beginner-guitar-chords-part-1/ Hi there, welcome back. This is my second part of the ten most important guitar chords for beginners. What a mouthful. I’m glad to see you back. We’re going to take up where we ...…
Hi there. I’m Thomas Michaud. In this video I’m going to show you from beginning to end how to change the strings on the classical guitar. Being able to change strings is an important part of leaning how to play guitar. Now, this can be quite an adventure and I know the first time I ...…
Hi I’m Thomas Michaud and in this video the 10 most important guitar chords for beginners, part one, I’m going to show you the first five guitar chords. I chose these 10 Most Important Guitar Chords for Beginners because they’re the most common and the most used guitar chords for acoustic and nylon string guitar. Now ...…
A friend asked me to learn this so I could demonstrate how to play it. I’m playing it just slightly slower to make it easy to see the fingering. This is an arrangement by the wonderful Brazilian virtuoso guitarist and composer Laurindo Almeida. I’ll need to practice this a little more before I’m ready to ...…
Would you like to really be able to read notes on guitar? This is a invaluable exercise to help you in your journey. It’s not easy to read music traditional notation on the guitar. On a piano the notes make sense – when they go up on the paper, they on up on the keyboard. ...…
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Also called the Rumba Flamenco strum, this is the staple for Flamenco influenced popular music like that of the Gipsy Kings, Ottmar Liebert and Jesse Cook. In this lesson I break it down and show you step by step how to play this basic rhythm that a big part of the music that I enjoy ...…
All guitarists want to have a smooth strum that comes easily without thinking about it. It can be difficult in the beginning to achieve smooth strumming without knowing what to do. Here’s the basic technique that, with practice, will help you achieve a silky smooth strum without effort.…
