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 ...

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Learning to play guitar is not complicated. It comes down to 3 basic things: 1. Find a good teacher with a good teaching system 2. Start practicing 3. Don’t stop until you get it OK, I realize that may sound like an over simplification. I’ll after many years of struggling myself, then teaching others what ...

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When my oldest daughter Melanie turned 9, she asked me to teach her to play guitar. I was happy to hear this and I suggested that it would be best if she took lessons from one of the instructors in my employ. My thinking was that she would benefit from a less personal relationship. To ...

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This is a great strum with a triplet feel that can be used for a 50′s style rock ballad or something you want to sound like a 50′s rock ballad. Try it out with the I – vi – IV – V progression.

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Free Bird is often considered one of the standard Classic Rock songs of all time along with Stairway to Heaven and Hotel California. I created this video as a learning exercise for my students using the basic chord progression from the verse and chorus. What I like about it is that most people are familiar ...

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