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Guitar for Absolute Beginners - Practice Audio

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Lesson One: To play guitar, you must pick up your guitar and... play!
  1. Introduction and How to Master Guitar Playing



  2. Lead with Plant Finger D-G, One Strum per Measure


  3. Practice Tips



Lesson Two: Lock Your Hand in With the Beat
  1. Lock Your Hand in With the Beat. D to G Quarter Note Strums.


  2. Eighth Notes Up and Down (Batman)


  3. Practice Tips



Lesson Three: Leave Fingers Down.
  1. G-Em-C-D7 with Four Strums Per Measure


  2. Practice Tips



Lesson Four: Alternate Strums
  1. D-A7-G-A7 with Eighth Note Strums


  2. Small Barre Sliding Triplet


  3. Practice Tips



Lesson Five: Riffing
  1. Wild Riff


  2. Alt 8s G-D-Am-Am-G-D-C-C


  3. Practice Tips



Lesson Six: Basic Strum - Keep the Hand Moving
  1. Basic Strum G-C-G-C-G-C-D-D


  2. Practice Tips



Lesson Seven: Best Strum
  1. Best Strum G-C-G-D


  2. Practice Tips



Lesson Eight: Mixed Rhythms
  1. Basic Strum in G, Best Strum in Em


  2. Split Measure C-D with Basic Strum


  3. Practice Tips



Lesson Nine: A
  1. Review of the Wild Riff


  2. A-D Best


  3. Practice Tips