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Are you a guitar beginner? Are you an experienced guitarist that's just lost that motivation to play? Do you want some structure to your practising? Or maybe you just want to improve as a guitarist? Then this simple guide is for you. This guide contains 52 simple tips for you to try out so that you can: Improve technique Finger Ability Theory knowledge Motivation Timing Rhythm Many More Now please remember that these are just simple tips that you can do, and you will need to read into them further to boost your[...]

Wow! Nearly the weekend again! ;-) Good times! How are you all? Good? Anyway, now on to part three of the Beginners Guide to Songwriting, and we're now moving onto four topics; Arranging, Middle Eight, The Riff :-P, The Solo. So without further ado lets crack on with it. Arranging Now for a bit of arranging. Are you going to take the traditional verse, chorus, middle eight route? Or try for something a bit more modal? There's nothing wrong with the traditional route - it's and all-time design classic. But, you see, there's the rub.[...]

A week or two ago I posted about my guitar motivation, or lack of it. Now although I have picked up my guitar since then, I still haven't picked it up enough. I mean, when people ask me what my hobbies are or anything like that, I do say "I play the Guitar." But the way things are going at the minute I am going to refrain from saying that to people as it's just not true. Anyway as I was looking on the internet for different motivational techniques, I came across one article that seemed to jump out at me. It was called Guitar Practice[...]

Hello everyone and back to another post in the Songwriting Guide. Hope you enjoyed my last one. I have had a few emails about the last post with some readers tips on songwriting. I will probably post these in the last issue so feel free to keep your own tips coming. Just email them to lickthatriff@googlemail.com So this weeks Guide is going to be on Key and Time Signature. Two of the biggest things when writing a song. Key This is another are where you can significantly change the feel of your song. Without being too muso - E is[...]