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Advice for Beginning Guitar Players

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Summary: Here is some great advice for all beginning guitar players in this free video clip. Learn some tips from our expert musician.

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By Athena Reich
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Athena Reich is a professional musician, actress, artist, singer, songwriter and coach for all of the above. She is based in New York City. Reich has released four CDs, toured...read more

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"In this clip I'm going to talk about making your strumming and picking patterns a little more complicated. Once you've got this down and this down, even this you might still get bored. A really fun thing to do is to use different fingers. Sometimes I like to use this finger and I like to slap it. Then you're the drums and you?re the guitar all at once. Don't just try my pattern but make up own. You can do whatever you want. For picking patterns, you've got this which is pretty straight, but what if you did two at once instead of just starting on one, what if you did two. You kind of put a little: or you can just pick a few strings at once and do it the same time. You can do whatever you want, just have fun."

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