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The Pivot Finger

Pivot Fingers A pivot finger helps your left hand move around the fingerboard, just as a guide finger does. A guide finger will help with shifts but a pivot finger is going to assist complex [...]

The Guide Finger

Everyone needs a little help, right? When shifting small or larger distances on the classical guitar it will be helpful to employ a guide finger. A guide finger is simply a finger that keeps in [...]

Basic chord theory on the guitar

Harmony is the language of musical relationships. When you feel a yearning in music, that is the harmony, when you hear a build of tension in music, that is the harmony, and when you feel [...]

How to Practice Scales

Synthesis For all of the lessons here in the Level 1 course, scales provide the most efficient synthesis of technique. You are going to have to use right hand positioning, nail shape and stroke, left [...]

G major and F major scales

Ok, so you have learned the scale in C, now it is time to start playing scales with sharps and flats in them. When you see a # sign next to a note, is simply means [...]

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