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Sight Training for Guitar

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The guitar picker is often the leader of the jam, but do you know how to read 'em? This lesson is mainly for those that do NOT play guitar but want to understand what guitar pickers are doing!

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  1. Wes Pittman ·

    I keep losing the timing when I add the backup. Does anyone count this out loud or is that just me?

  2. SlowHandSteve ·

    The pinky thing goes away, I promise. Took me about three months.

  3. Katie Clark Support ·

    Great question. That's a slide going into the B part — I play it as a slide but a hammer-on works fine if that's cleaner for you. Do what sounds right.

  4. Tom Vasquez ·

    There's a slower jam track under the resources tab on this lesson, worth grabbing.

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