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Listen to a piece called "Second", composed and played by myself.

* Lesson 1 : Guitar Anatomy * Lesson 2 : Stringing / Tuning * Lesson 3 : Playing the Guitar * Lesson 4 : Learning the Fretboard * Lesson 5 : Reading Standard Notation * Lesson 6 : Reading Tablature * Lesson 7 : Reading Scale and Chord Charts * Lesson 8 : Flatpicking Technique * Lesson 9 : Fingerpicking Part 1 * Lesson 10 : Fingerpicking Part 2 * Lesson 11 : Intervals Part 1 * Lesson 12 : Intervals Part 2 * Lesson 13 : The Major Scale * Lesson 14 : Modes * Lesson 15 : Chord Construction * Lesson 16 : Chord Progressions * Lesson 17 : Playing Over a Chord Progression * Lesson 18 : Circle of Fifths * Lesson 19 : Suspended Chords * Lesson 20 : Bar Chords * Lesson 21 : Power Chords * Lesson 22 : Seventh Chords * Lesson 23 : Slash Chords * Lesson 24 : Diminished Chords * Lesson 25 : 12 Bar Blues Part 1 * Lesson 26 : 12 Bar Blues Part 2 * Lesson 27 : The Pentatonic Scale * Lesson 28 : The Blues Scale * Lesson 29 : Blues Soloing Part 1 * Lesson 30 : Blues Soloing Part 2 * Lesson 31 : Flat-Five Substitution * Lesson 32 : Jazz Progressions * Lesson 33 : Resolving * Lesson 34 : Finding Chords Easily * Lesson 35 : Chord Scale Relationships * Lesson 36 : The Minor System * Lesson 37 : Transposing Chords * Lesson 38 : Song Construction * Lesson 39 : Transcribing Songs * Lesson 40 : Ear Training Part 1 * Lesson 41 : Ear Training Part 2 * Lesson 42 : Determining the Key * Lesson 43 : Drop 2 Voicings * Lesson 44 : DADGAD Tuning * Lesson 45 : Other Tunings * Lesson 46 : Harmonics * Lesson 47 : Arpeggios

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Even though this tutorial is meant for electric guitar learners, all the general guitar tips and advice will work for acoustic guitars as well. And if it doesn't have what you are looking for then see Essential FREE Tools to Learn Guitar Playing Online. When you are done learning and feel more comfortable with the guitar, you can check out the homepage for more guitar related information such as general music theory, practice lessons, how to read guitar tabs and diagrams and more. Features: * Free step by step electric guitar lessons for dummies. * 9 Lessons in total, to take you from an absolute beginner to an experienced player. * General guitar lessons both for acoustic and electric guitar learners, but geared more towards learners of electric guitars. * Each lessons contains the necessary theory, techniques and complementary music (MIDI) files in one place. * Free, no signup needed.

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As an artist, one of the issues that concern me is illegal downloading of music from the internet using applications like Emule.

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Listen to a piece called "Lets Have Fun", composed and played by myself.

In recent posts, I have introduced to you some of the music pieces I have composed over the years. In this post, I'll share with you some of my methods of composing.

Original sight (and viewing) of musical theory... Interesting to try using their logic.

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