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Improve your lead guitar skills with this trick

Derrick Campbell — Wed, 14 May 2025 03:51:34 +0000

Streamline your practice time with a guitar solo practice file This idea falls squarely in the category of “I wish I had done this years ago” but also at face value, one might wonder why this makes a difference. Many years ago, when I would practice the harder guitar solos I played with my cover band, I would put on ...

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Basic Strumming Patterns with G, C, and D Chords

Derrick Campbell — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 14:10:59 +0000

Get better with the G, C and D chords with these strumming exercises! So now that you’ve gone through 3 sets of chord exercises, you’re ready to try doing some strumming patterns with them. Exercise 1 teaches you the difference in time between quarter notes and eighth notes. Don’t worry if you have problems making the switch between chords with ...

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G, C, and D Chord Exercises Step 3

Derrick Campbell — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 05:03:55 +0000

In this video, we go over the final chord exercises for mastering G, C, and D. This video provides an overview of what to practice. I go through the whole note exercises only four times before going on to the half note exercises – you should do each rhythm 16 – 20 times (i.e. do the whole note exercises for ...

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More Exercises for Learning G, C, and D chords on Guitar

Derrick Campbell — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 06:21:28 +0000

Extra Chord Exercises for G, C, and D In this video, I walk students through the second step of mastering the G, C, and D open chords. These are still two finger fragments of the full chords, but there are more open strings between the fingers with these fragments.

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Audio Settings for Zoom Guitar Lessons

Derrick Campbell — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 03:13:53 +0000

If you’ve ever done guitar lessons on Zoom and had problems hearing the guitar, it’s probably because echo cancellation was turned on along with other audio enhancements (like noise suppression) that Zoom does. Here’s how to configure the audio settings on Zoom to work better for music lessons. Bring up the Audio Settings Menu In the lower left part of ...

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Learn to play the G, C, and D open chords

Derrick Campbell — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 04:04:44 +0000

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Something In The Orange Intro Tab by Zach Bryan

Derrick Campbell — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 03:18:54 +0000

Learn to play the intro to “Something In The Orange” by Zach Bryan The intro to this song is in 6/8 time, but it has a few measures of 3/8 time when he does the connecting riffs. For those of you having trouble figuring out how the think about the rhythm (myself included lol), this is why it’s a little ...

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How to fix uneven string output on an acoustic-electric guitar

Derrick Campbell — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 04:16:12 +0000

Fix Uneven String Output on an Acoustic-Electric So you just bought yourself an acoustic-electric guitar, and you plug it in at home and play the first few notes of Sweet Home Alabama, and suddenly you notice the strings seem to be different volumes. Welcome to my world in 2017 when I bought a Martin Performing Artist Series guitar, except this ...

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Get a Good Rock Tone with the Line 6 Spider IV

Derrick Campbell — Tue, 14 May 2024 03:36:23 +0000

Get a Great and Versatile Rock Sound with the Line 6 Spider IV 75 The Line 6 Spider IV is one of the best selling amps of all time. If you are looking for a better tone out of this amp, read on. The stock overdrive tones on this amp are not good, and the tone I found that really ...

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Teaching Yourself to Play Guitar Online

Derrick Campbell — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 00:32:23 +0000

Teaching Yourself to Play Guitar Online There was a time when the internet didn’t exist, and believe it or not, people tried to teach themselves how to play guitar then. This next statement will probably blow your mind: all those people were probably more successful at teaching themselves than people are today. Want to know why? Read on . . ...

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