Few things strike fear into the hearts of aspiring guitarists like the words “barre chords.”
The question I am most often asked is basically something along the lines of….
“I just can’t make a barre chord sound all the way. I have short/fat/stubby fingers and I just can’t get them to play a barre chord. Do I [...]

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One of the most important techniques that you can get down is a slur. Slurs are commonly called hammer-ons, pull-offs, or slides, but really the term slur encompasses all of those things.
A slur is just an unarticulated note. It’s a note you don’t pick. Under that umbrella, you could execute a slur with a hammer-on, [...]

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I got an email today that I get often…
I am currently speeding up my box 1 to box 2 scales but I struggle with one thing, which finger to use as the slide finger when moving from box 1 to 2 on the 3rd string. Coming down is easy, it seems, as the first finger [...]

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