Guides
Practice guides
Each guide answers one practice task, step by step. You can follow them with any guitar and any recording; the screenshots show the steps in Practice Lab, which is free and runs in your browser.
How to learn a guitar solo by ear
A solo is a string of short phrases. Learn it one phrase at a time, keep track of which phrases you can already play, and spend your practice on the ones you can't.
How to slow down a song without changing the pitch
Playing a recording slower usually makes it sound lower, so you can't play along in tune. A player that keeps the pitch lets you hear every note at the speed you can play, in the key of the record.
How to loop part of a song until you can play it
The hard part of a song is usually a few seconds long. Repeat just those seconds, slowly at first, until you play them cleanly, then join them back into the song.
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