5 Common Mistakes Beginners Make When Learning Guitar
This article is designed to inform you of what you can do to avoid the most common mistakes beginners make when learning guitar.
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Grokit Guitar Blog
In this guitar blog, you will find many helpful articles with guitar tips and tricks, answers to guitar playing techniques and other questions that guitarists are interested in.
Nick Weiland
- May 22
- 5 min
How To Relieve Finger Pain On The Guitar For Beginners
Alleviate guitar finger pain by discovering practical guitar tips for beginners.
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Nick Weiland
- May 15
- 5 min
3 Guitar Tips For Finding What Key You Are In
In this article we are going to discuss 3 guitar tips that will help you decipher what key you are in at any given time.
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Nick Weiland
- May 8
- 4 min
How To Warm Up On Guitar Effectively
The idea of this article is to give you a definitive guide of what works and the right approach when it comes to warmups on the guitar.
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Nick Weiland
- May 1
- 4 min
How To Use The Chords Of The Major Scale
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(1)Harmonising the major scale, what is it? Why do we need to know it? And how do we apply this knowledge? If these questions interest you,...
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Nick Weiland
- Apr 17
- 4 min
Using The CAGED Guitar System With Minor Chord Progressions
This article comes in to sweep away your worries and inform you on how to use the CAGED system to your advantage.
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Nick Weiland
- Apr 10
- 5 min
An Introduction To The CAGED Guitar System
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(2)Learning the CAGED system gives you a cohesive way to join up your scales, chords, and arpeggios in bite-sized chunks all over the neck.
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Nick Weiland
- Apr 3
- 4 min
Guitar Practice: Top 5 Things NOT To Do
The idea of this article essentially continues with some more good practices to replace bad habits.
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Nick Weiland
- Mar 27
- 5 min
Guitar Practice: Top 5 Things To Do In Your Practice Routine
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(1)In this article, I will be giving general guidelines for guitar practice routines that will be applicable in different situations.
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Nick Weiland
- Mar 8
- 5 min
How To Improve Your Rhythm On Guitar When Improvising
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(1)Have you felt like your improvisation was lacking? Or have you felt that when you play your scales it feels like painting by numbers?
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Leonid Levi
- Feb 7
- 3 min
Learn to play better guitar solos with these 5 motivic development techniques
When improvising a solo on guitar, we are often faced with a lack of ideas: What could I play here to sound interesting?
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Leonid Levi
- Jan 30
- 4 min
How to practice the Major Scale better: triad-based patterns
In this post I'll explore triad-based patterns - a valuable tool that acts as a bridge between playing scale runs and outlining chords.
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Leonid Levi
- Jan 24
- 5 min
Why do my guitar solos sound bad? Chances are, it's one of these 3 mistakes.
Here are some common phrasing mistakes that make our solos sound bad, and targeted exercises to help fix them and get improving quickly.
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Leonid Levi
- Jan 13
- 5 min
Chords are scales are chords. Learn them together.
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(1)In this guitar lesson I'll show you how to learn to improvise over chord changes without having to think of keys and scales.
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Shai Chen
- Jan 12
- 2 min
A great guitar hack when you don't know which scale to play on a chord
We want to help you figure out the scales when you're trying to play diatonic songs with a couple of chords that don't come from the scale.
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Shai Chen
- Jan 10
- 4 min
5 guitar tips that could have saved me years of practice
Here are a bunch of guitar tips to help you grow faster in your guitar playing.
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