Guitar Techniques

JUSTIN SANDERCOE

I’ve played guitar since I was knee-high to a grasshopper. I learned some chords from a teacher in primary school and had a few books, but I was learning mostly by ear, just messing around until my guitar sounded like the song I wanted to play. Trial and error. Very hit and miss. But I usually got there in the end.

I didn’t learn scales until I was in my mid teens. I was reluctant to learn any of that ‘technical stuff’ because it didn’t make sense to my rock and roll, punk mindset.

Even through college I resisted learning to

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