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	<title>Guitar Accelerator Blog: Play Guitar - Electric and Acoustic Guitar Lessons &#187; Guitar Technique</title>
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		<title>7 Reasons Why You Should Learn and Master Guitar Scales</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 21:51:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don J MacLean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You’ve heard that you should learn to play guitar scales, but let’s be honest…you would rather play your favourite guitar songs instead of playing boring old guitar scales.

So is it really worth investing some of your limited practice time into learning and mastering guitar scales?]]></description>
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		<title>Is This The Most Expensive Guitar Book Ever?  A Guitar Hanon Book for $998.98?</title>
		<link>http://guitaraccelerator.com/blog/guitar-technique/is-this-the-most-expensive-guitar-book-ever-a-guitar-hanon-book-for-998-98/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=is-this-the-most-expensive-guitar-book-ever-a-guitar-hanon-book-for-998-98</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 21:47:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don J MacLean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was surfing the net this morning and came across an Amazon.com listing for one of the guitar books that I wrote in 2005.  The book is called Mega Chops: Scale Mastery Beyond Hanon for Guitar.

I was totally blown away when I discovered the price that one seller is currently asking for this book.]]></description>
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		<title>Announcing The Top 30 Most Powerful Guitar Technique Exercises of All Time</title>
		<link>http://guitaraccelerator.com/blog/guitar-technique/announcing-the-top-30-most-powerful-guitar-technique-exercises-of-all-time/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=announcing-the-top-30-most-powerful-guitar-technique-exercises-of-all-time</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 20:32:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don J MacLean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Guitar Technique]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alternate picking]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[guitar tutorial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hammer-ons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Play Guitar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pull-offs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Very few guitar players know the secrets of how to practice for maximum results.  Most players that know these secrets want them to remain TOP SECRET! Until now...]]></description>
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		<title>Guitar Tutorial: An Effective Finger Coordination and String Skipping Exercise to Improve Your Guitar Technique</title>
		<link>http://guitaraccelerator.com/blog/guitar-technique/guitar-tutorial-an-effective-finger-coordination-and-string-skipping-exercise-to-improve-your-guitar-technique/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=guitar-tutorial-an-effective-finger-coordination-and-string-skipping-exercise-to-improve-your-guitar-technique</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2010 22:47:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don J MacLean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In today’s tutorial we will look at an exercise that actually performs double duty.  This exercise will help improve your finger coordination as well as improve your string skipping.]]></description>
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		<title>Guitar Lesson: A Great Guitar Technique Building Song</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 17:07:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don J MacLean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Guitar Technique]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alternate picking]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today we will apply alternate picking, sweep picking and string skipping guitar techniques to a fun bluegrass piece from the 1800's called “Jack Lamson’s Hornpipe”.

This piece offers quite a lot for guitar players.  As I mentioned, the song is fun to play and works well at all tempos.]]></description>
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		<title>Guitar Technique Lesson: How to Perform Hammer-ons and Pull-offs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 16:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don J MacLean</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[legato guitar]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever wanted to play those spine-tingling lines that sound super-smooth and oh-so fluid?

The key to playing those super-smooth, spine-tingling passages is to master hammer-ons and pull-offs.

Today we will look at how to perform hammer-ons and pull-offs and a great foundation hammer-on and pull-off exercise.]]></description>
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		<title>Guitar Lesson: The Basics of Alternate Picking</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 15:18:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don J MacLean</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[alternate picking]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alternate picking is the most common and efficient way to play notes on individual strings. To get started with this guitar technique we will look at a basic and very effective alternate picking exercise.]]></description>
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		<title>Guitar Lesson: A Fun Alternate Picking Song to Work on This Labour Day Weekend</title>
		<link>http://guitaraccelerator.com/blog/guitar-technique/guitar-lesson-a-fun-alternate-picking-song-to-work-on-this-labour-day-weekend/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=guitar-lesson-a-fun-alternate-picking-song-to-work-on-this-labour-day-weekend</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:22:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don J MacLean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Guitar Technique]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alternate picking]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the upcoming Labour Day Weekend I thought I would give you a fun alternate picking song to play.

It’s a piece by J. S. Bach.]]></description>
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		<title>Play Guitar: Cool Lead Guitar Technique Workout &#8211; Bach&#8217;s Brandenburg Concerto Number 5</title>
		<link>http://guitaraccelerator.com/blog/lead-guitar/play-guitar-cool-lead-guitar-technique-workout-bachs-brandenburg-concerto-number-5/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=play-guitar-cool-lead-guitar-technique-workout-bachs-brandenburg-concerto-number-5</link>
		<comments>http://guitaraccelerator.com/blog/lead-guitar/play-guitar-cool-lead-guitar-technique-workout-bachs-brandenburg-concerto-number-5/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:07:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don J MacLean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Want to improve your lead guitar technique? One of the main lead guitar techniques is alternate picking. A great way to improve your alternate picking is to work on a song that focuses on this very important lead guitar technique. Alternate picking is the most common and efficient way to play notes on individual strings.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At Last! Randy Rhoads&#8217; &#8220;Crazy Train&#8221; Isolated Track with Guitar Solo</title>
		<link>http://guitaraccelerator.com/blog/guitar-technique/at-last-randy-rhoads-crazy-train-isolated-track-with-guitar-solo/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=at-last-randy-rhoads-crazy-train-isolated-track-with-guitar-solo</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don J MacLean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow, this is really cool. The Metal Den has come across an isolated guitar track of Crazy Train from Ozzy Osbourne&#8217;s album the Blizzard of Ozz featuring the late great Randy Rhoads. If you love to play this song or have always wanted to play it, you&#8217;ve got to check out this isolated guitar track. [...]]]></description>
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