By: Eric Nail – Guitar Instructor | Olympia/Dupont
As a studio, we work with many beginning guitarists. Here are five pedals I suggest you pick up to get your pedal board started.
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Student Blog | Megan – The Chord Switching Olympics
It’s Thursday evening. The kids are in bed. My husband’s at church worship practice. I have the evening to myself. What do I do?
I grab something to drink, the remote and my guitar. I plop down on the couch and turn on reruns of something. I pick up the guitar- no pick for now- and I strum:
Am7…G…Am7…G…Am7…G
When I started guitar 3 months ago I knew it would be difficult. I assumed getting the chords to sound clear would be hard. (It is.) I assumed strum patterns would take practice. (It’s not so bad.) I assumed keeping an even tempo would take years of practice. (Stupid metronome.) But I didn’t realize how hard it would be to get my fingers from one chord to the next! It is so frustrating to sit down with a song I can play mostly well only to have to slow it down to half time just to get one transition.
July 31, 2012 Leave a Comment
Student Blog | Ben – First Guitar Lesson
Hi my name is Ben McDonald. I’m 30 years old and just started taking guitar lessons at Jammin’ Music Studios with Joey Archer.
I’m amazed at how little I knew about playing guitar. I knew it would be tough but, wow! I was holding the pic wrong, the way I was holding the guitar was wrong, and of course as soon as he said “ok, your turn”, I totally botched the chords/song he was trying to teach me.