Beyond The Guitar Blog
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Learn how to make guitar arrangements for classical or fingerstyle guitar. I teach you all the music theory, ear training, and fretboard knowledge you need to make your own guitar covers. I'm Nathan Mills, a classically-trained guitarist, arranger, teacher, and YouTuber. I create and perform my own unique arrangements of music from film, tv, and video games on my YouTube channel, Beyond..
Beyond The Guitar Blog
3M ago
If you're tired of relying entirely on tabs & sheet music, and want to unlock the limitless creative freedom of fingerstyle improvisation - then join Fingerstyle Improv Bootcamp here ..read more
Beyond The Guitar Blog
3M ago
Join my free "We Were Pirates" Masterclass and learn:
This entire EPIC piece through an in-depth note-by-note tutorial
How to master the art of "silence" in your playing to elevate your sense of rhythm and groove
How to make your melodies come alive with snappy and clear hammer-on's and pull-off's
How to play blazing fast and CLEAN arpeggios
Sign up for the free masterclass here ..read more
Beyond The Guitar Blog
5M ago
Join my free Art of Practice Masterclass and learn:
A fun and beautiful fingerstyle piece that you'll use to apply all the practice techniques you learn throughout the masterclass
The BEST method to train bulletproof muscle memory that literally ELIMINATES mistakes in your practice, so you can learn new music faster and truly enjoy your practice - free of the frustration from those nagging mistakes that have plagued you in the past.
The productivity hack I use to keep my practice sessions laser-focused.
How to memorize music faster ..read more
Beyond The Guitar Blog
6M ago
Join my free Arpeggio Masterclass and learn:
This beautiful arpeggio piece through an in-depth note-by-note tutorial
How to play with beautiful warm and powerful tone
How to stop sounding like a robot and bring life and emotion to your playing with dynamics and articulation
How to clean up your sloppy plucking technique, so you can play blazing fast arpeggios with control and accuracy
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Beyond The Guitar Blog
1y ago
Download the "Duality" Tabs / Sheet Music
People often view simple music as "less than." We praise complex harmony and chords and turn our noses up at simplicity. Why do we do this? Why do we feel the need to add complexity for the sake of complexity in our music.
Is there not beauty in simplicity?
For this video, I challenged myself to compose an interesting and emotionally powerful fingerstyle / classical guitar piece using only 2 chords.
Download the "Duality" free sheet music / tabs PDF right here ..read more
Beyond The Guitar Blog
1y ago
Download the "Versus" Tabs / Sheet Music
Can you hear the difference between a cheap vs expensive guitar?
The single biggest factor that determines how good your guitar sounds is...
Wait for it...
YOU!
Stop chasing more expensive guitars and other gear with the hopes that they'll help you finally find YOUR sound - and instead, get serious about your technique.
Good technique makes the cheapest guitars sound amazing, and poor technique makes the best guitars sound like trash...
To prove this - in today's video, I challenged myself to make my son's cheap little beginner gui ..read more
Beyond The Guitar Blog
1y ago
Download the "Arpeggio Study" Tabs / Sheet Music
A great way to break through plateaus in your progress with the guitar is to take common techniques that your fingers are comfortable with and used to - and approach them in a completely different way to force your fingers to adjust and adapt and break out of their stagnation.
In today's video, I do this with arpeggios. I kind of accidentally stumbled across this unique approach to playing arpeggios - and it turns out, it's an incredible exercise!
I'm confident that you've NEVER played arpeggios like this before - I ce ..read more
Beyond The Guitar Blog
1y ago
If you're relying on motivation to determine whether or not you're going to show up and practice today - you're going to fail...
Motivation is a feeling that you can't control. It's fleeting - it comes and goes.
But what if we didn't have to rely on a fickle feeling that comes and goes out of our control, and instead anchored our desire to practice to one simple and powerful idea. An idea that allows you to operate with zero regard to how you're feeling at any given moment...
In today's video, I'm going to teach you how to ditch motivation - and replace it with something far more ..read more
Beyond The Guitar Blog
1y ago
Download the "Pizzicato Study" Tabs / Sheet Music
One of the best things about the guitar is that it's essentially a mini-orchestra.
We can imitate so many different instruments with just one guitar - no other equipment or bandmates required.
In today's guitar lesson, I'm going to teach you how to play pizzicato (more commonly known as palm-muting) to imitate a plucked violin sound - and I'm going to show you 6 different ways to play pizzicato to give you ultimate flexibility over your tone.
Download the Pizzicato Study free sheet music / tabs PDF right here ..read more