15 Years of Lessons – Thank You!
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by John W Tuggle
1y ago
Fifteen years ago this week back in 2008, I releasesd my very first instructional DVD, Slide Guitar Method 1 Open E Tuning.   I had high hopes that it would be successful as I quit my main part time job of packing CDs into mailers to go full time into creating Guitar Lessons DVDs.  At this time I was also teaching private lessons and playing in a Wedding Band to make ends meet.   I ended up selling a decent amount of DVDS in the first week which let me know that there was an audience who was interested in this material I was creating and this might actually turn ..read more
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How to Purchase a Subscription as a Gift
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by John W Tuggle
1y ago
This Christmas season, I’ve finally added the ability to purchase a subscription as a gift. Give the gift of music this holiday season for that person who loves playing the blues but is not quite sure how to improve their skills. If you would like to purchase a subscription for someone else as a gift, then during checkout you can select the “This is a Gift” checkbox and add the recipients email address you would like to gift the subscription to. After a subscription is purchased, Gifting sets the recipient up in your store. An account is automatically created. The recipient is emailed to noti ..read more
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My Health Scare
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by John W Tuggle
1y ago
Two months ago on Sunday Septemeber 11th 2022, I noticed that my left arm and hand started swelling up and turning blue seemingly out of nowhere. I thought it was a pulled muscle or something from all the guitar I had been playing that week as I was spending lots of hours trying to write a new lesson. So I went to the ER that night and after they did an ultrasound, they told me that I had a Blood Clot in my left arm and they were going to do all they could to keep something fatal from happening. I had to stay in the ER for several hours while they did more tests and put me on an IV of Blood Th ..read more
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The New All Access Lesson Video Player
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by John W Tuggle
1y ago
The video player being used for all of the lesson videos in the All Access Pass has been changed and a lot of new features have been added. In the video below I’ll go through all of the main features the player has and how this can help you to use the lessons much better. Main Features Keyboard Shortcuts AB Looping Video Bookmarking Video Zoom Picture in Picture Lefty View Speed Control Roku Airplay support Start improving your blues and slide playing today with an All Access Pass The post The New All Access Lesson Video Player appeared first on Learning Guitar Now Blog ..read more
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The Best Guitar Amp Plugin for Blues
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by John W Tuggle
2y ago
Throughout the years I’ve always experimented with Guitar Amp plugins and they have come a long way from when I first started using them back in 2006. Although many of them can sound great, they seem to lack the feel of a real amp or they require a lot of tweaking to get them to sound good. So I thought I would give another one a try as I usually do every so often just to see how they are improving. While I love using my amps it’s very convenient just to sit down, plug my guitar into my audio interface and then start playing at low volumes. The latest plugin I tried last week, the Neural DSP T ..read more
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The New Premium Podcast
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by John W Tuggle
2y ago
The Podcast Video lessons have over time become very popular and due to that I have started making them much longer and involved. The previous layout for the Podcast Video lessons was ok but wasn’t the greatest. For these reasons I decided to completely redo the entire layout making everything much easier to access and a bigger area to use the Interactive Tab if you are watching on a desktop. You can now even watch the video with the Tab on the right side of it so you can easily follow along. Learn more in the video below. All of the Podcast Lessons are now using this layout and you can get ..read more
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Vidami Video Looper Support for All Access
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by John W Tuggle
2y ago
If you have followed the site over the last 14 years you will know that I never promote and products but I think this is a good one to tell people about. I had some All Access members start inquiring where the Vidami foot pedal was compatible with the site around this time last year.  I started having more members ask about this over the last few months so I decided to contact them to see what it would take to have my site work with their pedal. I’m happy to say that in January of 2022 all of the videos and Soundslices will be compatible with the Vidami Looping Foot Pedal. I also want to ..read more
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Practicing Scales with Soundslice
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by John W Tuggle
2y ago
Practicing your scales with the Soundslice player can be a lot more helpful I believe. Especially if you are not sure about the rhythms you are practicing or want to make sure you are getting the positions and timing correct. Check out the video below to learn more about practicing your scales with the Soundslice player. You can gain immediate access to this Soundslice Scale practice page by joining the All Access Pass. If you’re unsure about learning your Pentatonic Patterns and the rhythms you should be practicing to sound great over a slow blues then check out my Beginner Slow Blues Lead C ..read more
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Learning Licks with Soundslice
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by John W Tuggle
2y ago
Soundslice is an amazing tool to learn from in my opinion. I wish I would have had something like this when I was learning. It would have sped up the learning process for me no doubt about it. I recently updated all of the Soundslices in the All Access Pass where you learn a solo to have two new files in the recordings menu at the bottom of the player. This will give you access to seamless loops and also the ability to change between the backing track and performance with no lag. To me this is a great feature you can use to test how well you have learned any section of a solo. To gain access ..read more
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New T Shirts Now Available
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by John W Tuggle
2y ago
I’ve always wanted to have some kind of merch available for the site, and today I’m proud to say that the New Learning Guitar Now T Shirt Shop is officially open. I bought the domain name learningguitarnow . com way back in June of 2006 and proceeded put up the first version of the site a few months after this time.  So this is actually the 15 Year Anniversary of the website and I think it’s a great way to commemorate this time with T Shirts that are Learning Guitar Now branded. Currently we are only shipping to the US and Canada. Due to the amount of restrictions and complicati ..read more
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