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Here are a few steps to help you restring an acoustic guitar

Remove the old strings by popping out the pin on the bridge and unwinding it from the head.
Thread the ball end of a new string through the bridge and anchor it with the pin. It is important that the ball end of the string [...]

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How To Tune Your Guitar The Right Way
By: Mike Selvon
Proper maintenance is important to any technical piece of equipment, all the way from vehicles down to instruments that you play. The guitar is no exception. One of the things that you must do on a regular basis is to tune the strings on your guitar.
Without [...]

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Learn The Correct Finger Picking Position
Here is a guitar fingerpicking exercise: Play the simplest versions of chords that you can, even if you don’t strum all the strings. A G chord can be played with just one finger on the 3rd fret of the skinniest string, if you don’t strum the two fattest strings. A [...]

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Learn And Master Guitar Strumming
Doing very simple strumming patterns such as just one or 2 strums per measure can be very helpful if you are a beginning guitar player. Some times strumming can distract you from what you need to practice most: your left hand movements. So keep it short and don’t wear yourself out [...]

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Learn And Master Guitar Chords
When you are learning to play guitar it is often difficult for you to get the transition between chords fast enough to play with a song. It is a matter of practice. Play a song slowly and slowly speed it up over time. Time is your enemy if you rush it. [...]

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While you are learning to master and learn guitar playing techniques with your left hand, you will want to ensure that you are also not forgetting about your right hand technique.
Many new guitar players when learning to play the guitar are unsure of how to properly hold a guitar pick. Holding a guitar pick properly [...]

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One of the first things a new guitar player will learn is how to play basic guitar chords.
As soon as you learn how to play a minimum of two chords it is time to learn how to practice your guitar chord changes. Guitar chord changes are when you switch from guitar chord to [...]

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With the increasing popularity of the internet, learning online how to master the guitar has become very appealing for many beginners. Many try a couple free online lessons to learn guitar and after a few unsuccessful attempts, they give up. Before you do the same, you may want to find out which way of learning [...]

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If you don’t own them already, at some point, you will encounter what are called guitar effects. Guitar effects are used to enhance the tone and sound of your instrument. Guitar effects can dramatically change your guitar sound, or simply make your guitar sound sonically rich.
When you enter the world of guitar effects, it can [...]

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There are some very fun and exciting things that are unique to playing the guitar. One of these is called finger tapping. Although the theory behind finger tapping is nothing new, there is just something about guitar player finger tapping that sounds totally cool. Many other instruments such as the piano and saxophone have tried [...]