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Dave Donoghue - Founder of theschoolofguitar.com

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🎶 How I finally learnt to jam [email 3/5]

It took many many singalongs and music sessions to start to spot patterns in songs that people around me played... This is the cheatsheet I would write out, memorise and use when I'd sit in on future sessions... If a player around you starts a song with: G D C A E There are some SUPER predictable patterns of chord progressions that they may play.... Now what happens if they play a Queen song? Or something with a bazillion chords? Then you do your best, make a note to go learn that song so...

3 months ago • 1 min read

Hey Reader, I got some interesting replies to yesterdays email so it struck a chord, excuse the pun ;)In case you missed it, here's a copy.. So I was playing guitar properly for about 6 months when a close friend said five words that would go on to change everything.."Bring your guitar with you"... We were on a school trip, staying in the Jury's Inn in Cork that week..And I really didn't want to go down to the hotel lobby with my guitar. I didn't feel ready to play.I didn't know many of the...

3 months ago • 3 min read

Hi Reader, How have you been? Hope February is treating you well. I wanted to drop in this week with a couple of big insights and frameworks that have helped me go from not wanting to be picked out of a group "hey, you play guitar don't you, give us a song"... ..to going on to play festivals, national radio and record albums in cool studios, confidently and basically feeling no nerves 99.9% of the time. And no, I did not get the earliest prototype of neuralink... ..there's actually a...

3 months ago • 2 min read