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		<title>Top 52 Tips For Guitar Practice!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you a guitar beginner? Are you an experienced guitarist that's just lost that motivation to play? Do you want some structure to your practising? Or maybe you just want to improve as a guitarist? Then this simple guide is for you. 

This guide contains 51 simple tips for you to try out so that you can:

Improve technique
Finger Ability
Theory knowledge
Motivation
Timing
Rhythm
Many More

Now please remember that these are just simple tips that you can do, and you will need to read into them further to boost your techniques. But this is the groundwork for this :-)]]></description>
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		<title>The Beginners Guide to Songwriting Part 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:30:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow! Nearly the weekend again! ;-) Good times! How are you all? Good?

Anyway, now on to part three of the Beginners Guide to Songwriting, and we're now moving onto four topics; Arranging, Middle Eight, The Riff :-P, The Solo.

So without further ado lets crack on with it.

Arranging

Now for a bit of arranging. Are you going to take the traditional verse, chorus, middle eight route? Or try for something a bit more modal? There's nothing wrong with the traditional route - it's and all-time design classic. But, you see, there's the rub. How are you going to avoid your song sounding and feeling like a thousand others? Try to include some variation. Perhaps you could start with the chorus, or cut a verse in half. Try not to let the listener get to the end of the song before you, simply because they know where you're going with it.

Middle Eight

Middle eights are something of a hangover from the Tin Pan Alley days. To provide their song with a touch of variety, songwriters would drop in eight bars of a different melody, usually just after the second chorus or first solo.

Nowadays, the middle eight just refers to the bit where the song changes, also known as the bridge. If you do include one, make sure it's a cracker. There's nothing more dull than a middle eight that just drops down four keys - say, D to Bm - then wanders around in confusion like a drunk looking for a toilet door.

But let's say you don't want to do that verse/chorus thing and prefer the modal style favoured by bands like Janes Addiction and The Music...]]></description>
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		<title>Guitar Motivation Update</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:51:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A week or two ago I posted about my guitar motivation, or lack of it. Now although I have picked up my guitar since then, I still haven't picked it up enough. I mean, when people ask me what my hobbies are or anything like that, I do say "I play the Guitar." But the way things are going at the minute I am going to refrain from saying that to people as it's just not true.
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		<title>The Beginner&#8217;s Guide To Songwriting Part Two</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello everyone and back to another post in the Songwriting Guide. Hope you enjoyed my last one.

I have had a few emails about the last post with some readers tips on songwriting. I will probably post these in the last issue so feel free to keep your own tips coming. Just email them to lickthatriff@googlemail.com

So this weeks Guide is going to be on Key and Time Signature. Two of the biggest things when writing a song.
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