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All 26 articles →Guitar practice routine: a daily plan for 15, 30 or 45 minutes
A guitar practice routine in six fixed slots, tune, finger warm-up, chord changes, strumming, scales and fretboard notes, and a song, scaled to 15, 30 and 45 minutes, with a sample week.
Piano pedals: what each pedal does and how to use them
What the three piano pedals do on a grand, an upright and a digital piano, how pedal markings look in sheet music, syncopated pedaling step by step, common mistakes and five pieces to practice on.
Piano hand position: posture, finger numbers and scale fingerings
How to sit, shape the hand and number the fingers at the piano: bench height, the curved hand, C position and other five-finger positions, thumb-under crossings, the left hand, common faults and a fingering chart for all 12 major scales.
Piano exercises for beginners: the daily drills that build even fingers
Eight piano exercises for beginners with the notes and fingering written out, what each one trains and how many minutes it needs, plus hand position, a first Hanon pattern and the technique books that fit any method.
Barre Chords: the 8 Movable Shapes and How to Make Them Ring
A barre chord turns your index finger into a movable nut, so one shape gives you twelve chords. Here are the eight shapes that cover 96 chords, a fret-by-fret root chart for both root strings, and the fixes for every kind of buzz.
A Word About Fingerings
Why the suggested fingerings aren't set in stone, and how to pick the ones that fit your hand and the passage.
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