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1.) Tommy Emmanuel
2.) Guitar Challenge of the Week:
3.) I Ching, the Book of Changes: Part 2
4.) I Ching, the Book of Changes: Part 1
5.) The Essence and Importance of Flow
6.) Scale Modes as Substitutes for Major and Minor
7.) Eddie Van Halen
8.) Major Scales and the CAGED + 2 System
9.) Derek Trucks
10.) Ritchie Blackmore
11.) Your Attention Channels
12.) Learning to Play Leads Using the Vector Method
13.) Improve Your Solos with Drones and Pedal Notes
14.) Red Hot Double Stop Picking
15.) The Way of the Black Belt is One Eternal Round
16.) Overtones and Natural Harmonics
17.) Rhythm Melody Harmony: The Basis of All Theory
18.) The Four Corners of the Harmonic Landscape
19.) Simple Sample Blues Licks
20.) Blues Rhythm Patterns
21.) Blues Tunes Need Lyrics
22.) Modified Blues Scale
23.) Minor Blues Scale
24.) Major Blues Scale
25.) Minor Blues
26.) Major 8-Bar Blues
27.) Major 12-Bar Blues
28.) Moveable 6th Chords
29.) Ottmar Liebert
30.) Billy Gibbons
31.) Pentatonic Scales: Rocker's Favorites
32.) The CAGED System: Seeing the Fretboard
33.) Major and Minor Scales: Yin and Yang of Scales
34.) A Horizontal Approach to Playing
35.) A Horizontal Approach - Take 2
36.) Styles of the Fender Stratocaster
37.) Intro to Major Scale Modes
38.) Reading Music for Guitar: Pegging Notes to Fretboard
39.) Music Reading for Guitar
40.) Adrian Legg
41.) Extending Bar Chords by Morphing: A Form
42.) Making Music 2
43.) Making Music
44.) Balance in Martial Arts and Guitar
45.) Cadences: Musical Punctuation
46.) Harmonic Scale Directional Chord Changes
47.) Jazz Primer: Comparing to Pop
48.) 7th Chords: More Stacked 3rds
49.) Intervals: The Essential Building Blocks of All Music
50.) Gary Moore
51.) Joe Satriani
52.) Extending Bar Chords by Morphing: E Form
53.) In and Yo: Our Place in the Musical Universe
54.) Yin and Yang: Dynamics in Music
55.) Body Mind and Spirit in Music and Guitar
56.) Triads: Stacked 3rd Intervals
57.) Joe Satriani: Riff from Big Bad Moon
58.) The Journey of the Black Belt Guitar Player
59.) Black Belt Guitar Academy is Web-ified!
60.) Jeff Beck
61.) Steve Morse
62.) Eric Johnson
63.) Blackberry Blossom
64.) Hidden Beast
65.) Cruise Missile
66.) Alternate Picking
67.) The Never Ending Circle of 5ths
68.) Compound Intervals: Intervals in 2nd Octave
69.) Intervals: Musical Atoms
70.) Want to Turbocharge your Guitar Learning Abilities?
71.) Blues Scales
72.) Tritone: The Devil's Interval
73.) Harmonic Scale Chords for All Major Keys
74.) Nashville Numbering System Adapted for Black Belt Guitar
75.) Basic Theory of Harmonic Scale Progressions
76.) She's So Heavy (Modified Ending)
77.) 2nd and 7th Intervals: The Leading Intervals
78.) Major and Minor Chord Inversions
79.) 3rd and 6th Intervals: The Emotional Intervals
80.) Moveable A-Form Barre Chords
81.) Moveable E-Form Barre Chords
82.) Perfect Intervals: Pillars of Western Music
83.) Open Minor 7th Chords
84.) Open Major 7th Chords
85.) Open Dominant 7th Chords
86.) Open Minor Chords
87.) Open Major Chords
88.) Knowing your Guitar Neck like the Back of your Hand
89.) Tuning Your Guitar
90.) Guitarist and Guitar Anatomy 101
91.) Effective Practice
92.) Set Management: A Must-Have in Performing
93.) Ongoing Growth: Horizontally and Vertically
94.) Always Begin Here!
95.) Ear Training: What? How? Why?
96.) Inverted Chord Forms
97.) Musical Vitamins for Guitar Players
98.) Guitar Teaching Do's and Don'ts
99.) Guitar Teaching Basics to Remember
100.) Guitar and Martial Arts?
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A guitar is a musical instrument characterized by its visually dominant body and neck. Guitar strings are strung parallel to the neck, whose surface is covered by the fingerboard (fretboard). By depressing a string against the fingerboard, the effective length of a string can be altered, which in turn changes the frequency at which the string will vibrate when plucked. Guitarists typically use one hand to pluck the strings and the other to depress the strings against the fingerboard. The strings may be plucked using either fingers or a plectrum (guitar pick), thus creating the sound of notes or chords. The strings of a guitar produce little sound by themselves. Instead, their vibration must be amplified to audibly useful levels. In general, this amplication is achieved either mechanically or electronically, with the result being that there are two main categories of guitar: acoustic (mechanical amplification) and electric (electronic amplification).
