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Guitar techniques lessons by Peter Vogl.
Peter Vogl started playing guitar in 2nd grade and very quickly realized his calling. He played in several bands through his years at Okemos High, and proceeded to study classical guitar in college at the University of Ga. under the tutelage of John Sutherland. Read more

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Free guitar tabs

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guitaretab.com has a buttload of free guitar tabs and a guitar player-friendly interface. Read more

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Tips For Playing Lead Guitar

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Playing lead guitar needs dedication. Here are a few tips for playing lead guitar which will help you make the best use of your practice time. Read more

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An Easy Acoustic Guitar Solo – Packington’s Pound

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Packington’s Pound is a very old traditional melody dating back to the fifteen hundreds. It is a dance tune so once you become familiar with it, let it swing. The technical requirements are minimal so if you are a beginner fingerstyle guitarist you should give it a try to add some zing to your repertoire at modest outlay.

Here is a link to Packington’s Pound tabs

And here is a feisty performance of Packington’s Pound so you can see how it should be played:


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Free guitar learning software

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Guitar Guru gives you interactive song sessions designed to help you learn guitar and teach you how to play hundreds of your favorite songs. This song-based learning software complements guitar tablature by providing additional, detailed instructions that guitar tab alone is unable to provide. Guitar Guru teaches guitarists of all skill levels how to play songs from all genres using a variety of intuitive, easy-to-use tools. Features include a virtual fretboard showing proper fingerings in real-time, detailed instructions for all guitar parts in each song, adjustable playback/learning tempo, MIDI or CD-synced audio, customizable display with additional guitar skins, and sample passages for 16 popular songs. New in Guitar Guru 2.0 are a variety of enhancements, upgrades and new features – all of which are compatible with previously purchased Guitar Guru Sessions. These include a step-through playback function allowing you to step through each event (fingering change, strum, etc.) at any speed using the arrow keys on your keyboard, delayed start option, improved chord displays and playing tips system, bass guitar support, MIDI tone change option, and a customizable finger number and color display.
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Fingerpicking guitar

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What is a fingerpicking guitar? There has always been a division of acoustic guitars between “folk” and “classical” which mostly refers to whether the guitar is fitted with nylon or steel strings. A nylon string guitar is ideal for fingerpicking because it is easier on the finger nails. The steel string guitars are suited to flatpicking but some people do play fingerstyle on steel strings.

Some guitar makers have recently taken up the practice of calling certain guitars – like the Martin OM-2 - “fingerpicking guitars”. Is this label really accurate? Is one guitar really better for fingerpicking than another? Some people say that guitars best suited for fingerstyle measure one and three-quarter inches across the nut and guitars better for flatpicking measure one and eleven-sixteenth inches. That could be getting a little technical.

Of course Dreadnought size guitars, that many guitarists see as flatpicking guitars are a bit awkward for fingerpicking. This is not a universal opinion – some players prefer the larger size guitars for fingerstyle. There’s even evidence that Merle Travis played a Martin D28.

The Dreadnought guitar was specifically designed to project sound in a live, unplugged setting. As most of the live acoustic gigs of the time were oriented to bluegrass, this would suggest that the larger guitar was made for the flatpicker.

Indeed flatpicking sounds excellent on a Dreadnought or one of the larger style guitars because they produce a uniformly big sound. This contrasts with the smaller guitars that do not have such an overpowering bass but have wider nuts to accommodate fingerstyle players.

A guitar like the Martin D28 is ideally suited to bluegrass, gospel, country and rock. Everybody agrees that the guitar has a great bass response but some people actually find the treble a little on the thin side. Of course, the strings you choose to play on has some bearing on the sound.

A guitar that does not need to be picked with a great deal of force will always be better suited to fingerstyle players. The guitars with small bodies are thought by a lot of guitarists to be fingerstyle guitars because the treble notes are not overpowered by the bass as would be the case with Dreadnoughts.

This article has given you some of the opinions from all sides of the debate about whether particular guitars are for fingerstle or flatpicking. In the real world nobody takes any notice of rules or specifications. You find a guitar that you like to play and you stay with it.

Here is a finger picking lesson played on a standard classical guitar:


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