Guitar Phrasing
As we do when we speak, each guitar player puts his or her own personal touch into playing their instrument. This personal style is called guitar phrasing and it is very much like speech patterns, in that we choose how to interpret a song, add or detract our own color in guitar chord phrasing, tease or race a rhythm to make a statement. Whether we are picking or strumming or even not playing while waiting-out a dramatic silence, if we are staying in the ‘grove’, timing of the piece, we can still make the piece our own from understanding guitar phrasing lessons and applying them liberally.

Though it is most often spoken about with jazz guitar phrasing, guitar phrasing really doesn’t speak to just one style. Basically, as we color our language with inflections of speech, so we can when we play. A less technical skill (not a technical skill at all) then strumming or picking, a good guitar phrasing lesson focuses more on bringing the player’s personality out then teaching anything truly specific. This is really a ‘feel’ thing and though that term is quite esoteric, there really isn’t much more to guitar phrasing then feel. As we would ‘phrase’ something we say as a question, when we could probably just as easily make it a statement, we approach a particular song, or part of a song, with maybe aggression or a laid-back attitude, which brings our personality into it. Yes, jazz guitar phrasing is full of these changes in inflection (a lot of jazz playing is how you play a particular standard not that you are playing that standard) but a player can put his or her individual personality into any genre of music they play.
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Guitar Phrasing

Guitar PedalBoard Setups
Part of getting your live sound together; after buying the guitar (or guitars) that suit you best, trying-out some amps, knowing what strings and picks fit your style, is working through guitar pedalboard setups. Assuming you are one of those players who has chosen pedals, and not modules or rack effects, then you are definitely looking to either build a pedalboard or will be trying-out the various professional guitar effect pedalboards on the market. But whether you use a home made pedalboards or buy custom pedalboards, there are some basics to the design you should either be incorporating or looking for.
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Guitar Pedalboard Setups

Music Education
From A&R reps in the corporate world of record companies to music teachers, to studio engineers, to session musicians, to working at a publishing company or music library, the types of jobs are plentiful for someone seeking a music career. Of course with popular jobs comes competition and in music you need a solid music education, maybe even a master’s degree. It might be ‘who you know’ that helps you land that great studio gofer gig or there might be a teacher position opening in the music department of your old grammar school, but after you get that job it is more what you know (and the education you got knowing it) that increases your chances of longevity or advancement. And the only way to get this knowledge, beyond interning or nepotism, is having a good music education degree from a school offering accredited music education courses.
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Guitar Care
Learning how to play your guitar is one thing, but if you know nothing about guitar care you might be left with cracked pieces of wood and some snapped strings. Sudden changes in temperature, extremes of hot and cold and that dreaded ‘number one enemy’ of guitar care, humidity, will not only whack your guitar out of tune, but can cause such permanent damage your instrument might not ever recover. Then there is guitar fret care you have worry about and string life. Whether it’s electric guitar care or acoustic guitar care you need, there are some basic guitar care tips, that when followed, will give your instrument long life and provide you with years of dulcet sounds.
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Learning Guitar Harmonics

Creating smooth, well-executed guitar harmonics are about the trickiest thing a player can do. Just as there are different ways to strum and pick, there are various ways to produce harmonics for guitar but the process, the actual technique for doing so, is delicate and so specific. The unusual tone of guitar harmonics, the actual split-second plucking and even the location of the frets that produce the guitar harmonics are all minute details that take a very long time to master and recognize. Learning the guitar harmonics takes time and patience, more so then many other techniques and while many guitarists use guitar-tuning harmonics, not many players even attempt to produce harmonics until they have been playing a very long time.

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