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I've never established a formal warmup routine. Typically, I start improvising on the guitar without a structured approach, warming up the fingers with both solo lines and chords, and preparing the mind. Open String Upstrokes Fretting hand not needed for this exercise. Just open strings. Hammer On / Pull Offs …

Need some help mastering guitar chords? Look no further! Here are some fantastic websites that provide a variety of visual representations to aid your learning. From image-based displays to ASCII charts, there's something here for every learning style. I'll keep this list updated as I discover more valuable resources. ASCII …

https://www.oolimo.de/index.php Another cool site for visualizing the fretboard. Oolimo covers the basics and theory with many good articles on the subject. They review the basic chord types like CAGED. And, there are chord progressions suggestions where you can see how progressions are used in different songs. Finally, you can test …

https://fretbo.ar/ Very cool site to help you visualize your fretboard. Good for scales. Fretbo is a tool to help you visualize the fretboard. After hearing a few guitar virtuosos explain they visualize the fretboard in terms of intervalic functions from the root note of a scale, I knew I had …

Somebody on a FB group asked the question about routing a signal through a plug-in in their digital audio workstation or DAW. Then, 1/2 through the chain, send that signal somewhere else (another pedal), bring that signal back in to finish processing it, send it one more time to some …

https://chordpic.com/ Here is a quick bookbmark for creating guitar chords. ChordPic generates a clean, downloadable image. You can even change the shape of the notes and lable them too. There is a color option as well. When you are done, you can download it as a .svg vector format so …

On Facebook, I made a post about a 1980s Paul Gilbert Guitar Player article back in Feb. 2020 about alternative picking. Essentially, this is the exercise he posted in an old Guitar Player magazine and the example is what you see below. It wasn't until the long, pandemic, stay-at-home that …

Here is another effects pedal that does some amazing things. It takes your electric guitar and makes it sound like a full-bodied acoustic. With this box you can really make quick switches between that classic big acoustic to whatever amp sound you are using then back again. "Standard" is good …

These stomp boxes have come along way from the last time I remember them. This box has a lot of options in it. First you can just play notes in the "Choir" mode to add something to your input (Guitar, keyboard, whatever). Next are the vocoder modes "Vintage" (like what …

This is not my music. I found some cool music by a composer by the name of Mike Mullen . Ever since my first visit to E.P.C.O.T. I have always found a liking toward that dreamy, floating music they would just put in their queues. If you are standing in …