5 Essential Guitar Skills to Learn Any Song ★ Acoustic Tuesday 274

Acoustic Tuesday | Guitar Routine Show

Tony Polecastro

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🗓️ 17 January 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

How do you learn a new song? Where do you begin and how do you set yourself up for success? On this episode, I'll show you how to break any song down into five essential guitar skills. Learning a new song is a daunting process. There are so many elements of a song to consider. From determining the style you need to play to the technical aspects of soloing and improvising. By using this simple framework, you can establish a starting point for learning a song. Rather than focusing on a song note for note, this step-by-step guide gives you a plan. When you focus on these specific categories, the easier learning songs becomes. Instead of being caught of guard by a tricky technique or feeling overwhelmed by the shear amount of music you have to learn and memorize, breaking a song into manageable categories is an easy way to learn it. So what are you waiting for? Submit your guitarsenal at the link below!https://airtable.com/shrpAVAi9HUGVUW8b Featured in this episode...- Rob Ickes and Rrey Hensley - Jeffrey Foucault - Tony Rice- Adrian Bellue - Sam Bush

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0:00.0	Learning any new song on guitar can feel daunting.
0:03.0	There's so much.
0:04.0	And then once you learn that song and want to start another one,
0:09.0	you have to start all over again, right?
0:11.0	Wrong. It's actually wrong.
0:14.0	Any song that you want to learn can be boiled down to five guitar skills.
0:18.0	And when you focus on these five guitar skills, learning any new song becomes
0:22.9	easier and easier and easier. They pretty much start falling under your fingers. On today's show,
0:29.1	I'm going to show you how to highlight these five guitar skills in any song that you want to learn.
0:35.0	Hey, Tack family. This is episode 274 of the Acoustic Tuesday Show, a show packed full of
0:41.2	inspiration and fun designed to help you get more progress, fulfillment, and joy from your
0:46.1	acoustic guitar journey. Throughout today's episode, I will be delivering to you some acoustic
0:50.5	news you can use, which includes a literal cargo truck full of new music.
0:56.7	A musical action figure that had me crying tears of laughter, that had me laughing so hard,
1:02.7	I was crying, you get the idea, and much, much more.
1:06.1	Plus, we're going to visit the mythical land of Tenar Kipp to see a guitar arsenal from one of our very own
1:11.7	Acoustic Tuesday viewers. But first, please go ahead and grab your guitar. I want to show you
1:17.1	how to break down any song into the five essential guitar skills. So these five guitar skills,
1:22.8	what exactly are they? Well, I'm going to go ahead and define each one for you and then we're gonna see how they lay out in the song Sweet Home Alabama.
1:31.3	It's a song that we all know and that we all love. Maybe. Anyways, the five guitar skills are as follows. Number one, technique. What are you doing so that you can play the song?
1:44.7	Do you use a flat pick?
1:45.9	Do you use your fingers?
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