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Another excellent lesson from David Taub with Next level guitar .  This is a great lesson for the absolute beginner out there who is looking for a simple way to take your guitar playing to another level. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qakh9tVr9U In this lesson, David will first teach you how to play 4 very basic guitar chords . These are all very easy chords that David will be teaching you that only require one or two fingers to play and they are: E Minor , G Major , Asus2 and... Read Full Story

About Allan Kirk After training to teach, I taught Art in secondary school for five years before following a career in computing. I moved permanently to France in January 2008 to launch Tarnincolour Painting Holidays. I have also developed a very popular range of Step-by-Step watercolour lessons, which I sell on my website to customers from all over the world. I run workshops in France in summer, Canada in the fall and UK in spring. I have contributed articles to SAA Paint magazine, Artist... Read Full Story

About Barbara Fox Barbara has achieved a tremendous following on both the national and international level as a watercolor painter with a vivid and unique style. Her paintings have been featured in solo and group exhibitions in museums and galleries throughout the United States, including the Phillips Museum of Art in Lancaster, Pennsylvania; the Millicent Rogers Museum in Taos, Mexico; the Salmagundi Club New York City; The Neville Museum in Green Bay Wisconsin; and the Pittsburgh Center... Read Full Story

Guitar Chord Lesson -- Learn to Play Am9 Learn how to play the Am9 Guitar Chord (also known as A minor 9, A Minor 9th) with this free tutorial.  This is an advanced lesson.  If you would like to learn a beginner version of this chord, follow this link for an easy Am9 guitar chord . In order to find the notes that make up this particular chord, we need to take the 1, b3, 5 , b7, 9  steps of the  A Major Scale: A, B, C#, D, E, F#, G#.  This will give us the notes A, C, E, G,  and B.  The... Read Full Story

by Will Kemp with Will Kemp Art School Let’s be honest, colour mixing can be frustrating. You’ve mastered the colour wheel, you understand complementary colours and may have either dabbled with a few different colour schemes but why do you paintings still not work? Why don’t they balance and create harmony to your eye? What are you doing wrong? In this series of guest posts for ArtInstructionBlog.com,  I want to address some of the common stumbling blocks of colour and analyze some... Read Full Story

Learn How to Play the Song “One” by U2 This is a great acoustic guitar lesson of the hit song “ One ” by U2 .   This song is the third track off of the popular album “ Achtung Baby ” released in 1991. “One” was released as the third single off of the album in March of 1992.  This song reached number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 list and number 7 on the UK Singles Chart.  Learn more about this song over at Wikipedia . The lesson below, taught by Marty Schwartz with GuitarJamz, is an... Read Full Story

About Karin Karin Wells is an artist of amazing versatility. She graduated with honors from both the New England School of Art and Design, Boston, 1965, and the Butera School of Art, Boston, 1986. Karin has enjoyed a career as an award-winning graphic designer, illustrator and sign painter. She also taught Life Drawing and Painting for many years. She has most recently studied for three years at The New England School of Classical Painting in Greenfield, New Hampshire, under the direction... Read Full Story

Learn how to Play the A7 Guitar Chord We covered an easy beginner version of the A7 Guitar Chord on this site in the past.  In this post, we will look at some advanced voicings for the A Dominant 7th chord. The A7 chord is a very popular one, especially in blues guitar. In order to find the notes that make up this chord, we need to look at the A Major Scale : A B C# D E F# G# A.  From this scale, we find the 1st, 3rd, 5th and flattened 7th positions (b7), or the notes A, C#, E and G.  The... Read Full Story

This is another fantastic video guitar lesson from David Taub with Next Level Guitar . If you are a beginner, stuck in a rut and tired of playing the same old boring chord progressions, then this lesson will be especially helpful and enjoyable. David is going to demonstrate how to play something that sounds beautiful without being impossible to play. One trick that makes this chord progression easier is that David is using moveable chords.  This means you can play the same chord shape at... Read Full Story

About Delmus G. Phelps Statement of purpose within the work: I’ve been an active painter since the mid 70’s creating works in the Realist tradition. Being inspired by the nature around me and in the things we tend to collect, I produce still life and floral oil paintings in the Classical/Contemporary Realism style on canvas and panels. With a particular interest in sharp focus realism I produce still life works of incredible detail.  My floral pieces exude a peace and serenity much... Read Full Story