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We have recently installed a support system for all members. This new system is there to help with guitar related issues as well as navigating this site. It is available at the main members page.
Notice the live chat sessions are available but a time must be reserved by first opening a ticket.
Anyone purchasing the Flash and Video Tools only, (not a membership), can also use this system, including the live chat feature.
New Member Item: Complete Chord Library has been installed to include 25-45 examples of each basic chord. This will continue to be expanded. |
When You Understand The Guitar, You Get Better Right Away!
Good guitar resources are hard to come by. When you find them, they can lift your game to a whole new level. Face it, if playing
guitar was as easy as everyone says it is, anyone could be a guitar player.
The fact is it takes work, and not just any work. It takes the right kind
of work. Put in the wrong kind of work and you waste your time.
I have carefully crafted some very useful tools for beginner
and more advanced guitarists and they are now available to a select group.
The general public has not seen these yet and they won't for another week.
You get a chance to check these out before everyone else does. These tools
can either help you to gain a complete understanding of the fundamentals
or let you drill into your specific areas of interests. They are all designed
to be very easy to use.
First of all, let's start with the beginner material. If
you are just getting started, it helps to examine the basic information
with tools that make sure you learn everything you want to learn. Here
are some very helpful tools to help you do it.
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Tools To Help A New Guitarist Get On Track |
 The act of becoming a guitar player is really not hard, and there are no secret methods. You just have to be disciplined to play every day and work at a few specific items over a period of time. These long term strategies build up muscle strength and finger response, so your fingers will do what you command them to do. It takes a few months to get your fingers to a point where they will behave and do what they are told.
This build up of skills is accomplished by making your fingers touch the fretboard countless times. The more times your fingers press down and release from the fretboard under strict control, the deeper skills you develop. This is really the only way to play at a meaningful, skillful level. You are learning by doing.
I put the majority of importance on scales right up front. I do this because scales will help you like few other exercises will. They can and will be the driving force of new abilities. Your skills in playing scales will transfer into ALL THE OTHER AREAS of your playing. Playing chords will get a big boost from scale work. And when you play songs, they will sound much better. This is a central skill and it serves to create strong, accurate and very competent guitarists.
Nothing increases the skill levels of new players like scales. Nothing! If you play scales for an hour a day, I personally guarantee you will become a guitar player within six months. You will not have to be told you are a guitar player, you will know it and so will everyone else. There is no doubt in my mind of exactly when I became a guitar player. I knew it and everyone who listened to me knew it. That is what scales do and every guitar player should play scales every day (if possible). They will pay you back a thousand times. So lets look at what we have to help you nail this to the wall. |
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Video Open String Scale Series
The first multimedia tool of this strategy is the video series. With these videos you can watch me play each open string scale presented in Uncle Tim's First Year. This is important because when you see it, you can easily learn why the finger strategies are so important. You can see the tiny nuances of changing strings. Every string is a little different than the others and there are many different ways of moving across them . Videos reveal all the small undocumented moves. |
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When people learn to play they often try to learn by playing chords. The emphasis is on holding down the chords properly. While this is very important it does not address a much bigger concern. Playing guitar is as much about moving to a new position as holding down a chord. Your fingers in motion are a far greater concern because there is more that can go wrong. If you are focusing on a static hand position, it does not address the mechanics of movement, and that hidden concept is quite important. Playing guitar is all about movement and the video series captures this. |
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Flash Scales |
Animated Scale Exercises
Watching videos is helpful, but sometimes other practice aids are important too. Remember when you practice scales you play for at least a half hour at a time. This means you end up playing the scale(s), hundreds of times in a row. This is a high level of repetition and extremely important. A skill that will pay off huge. Every time you move your hands accurately and correctly, you build up proper technique. The more you do it, the better guitarist you become. Everyone is subject to the same limitations of development. Human bodies all work the same. True there are differences in the rate of absorption, but EVERYONE CAN DO THIS, WHO IS WILLING TO PLAY SCALES. EVERYONE! |
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Slow, Medium...
So I developed an animated series of scales. This is a tool you can use as you practice. You can loop the scale and play with the animation. You can start out by playing only one note at a time, clicking next and moving to the next note.
Eventually as you become more comfortable, you can loop it and play the entire scale for as long as you want. There are three different speeds for each scale. So as you gain comfort in playing, you can increase your speed. Comfort is what drives speed and accuracy. The more comfortable you are, the better you will execute these finger movements. |
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...Or Fast
The fast scales are actually medium fast. I do not think it is a good idea to play scales fast when you are learning. Inserting speed just increases the chances of making mistakes. The slower you play it, the better accuracy you will develop.
Once you gain accuracy, speed will naturally follow. Speed that you can control and use. Remember anyone who plays scales, can play lead guitar. They go together like bread and butter. If you play scales, you should also play some lead guitar, if for no other reason that it is extremely fun. It also makes you better in a big way. All from just playing scales, EVERY DAY! |
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Scales Are Only The Beginning
Scales will jump start your technical abilities
for sure. But playing beautiful songs involves more than just that.
Chords with single note lines will flush out your playing and help
you create incredibly emotional songs. They must be incorporated
into your daily strategy so this very important area of development
occurs. Playing scales will make sure your hands get a workout
every day and then you can focus your accurate and powerful hands
on playing chords and crafting beautiful songs. Lead guitar
is one half of guitar, rhythm is the other half. Rhythm can involve
finger picking, strumming, flat picking and other ways of holding
down a rhythm line. |
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More Tools To Help Guitarists
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Animated Chords In The Key
So we take a good close look at chords in the
context of keys. This is a tried and true component of The Uncle
Tim Series for guitar. When you use these resources you are always
oriented in one of the western keys because that is how music
really works. Every piece of music you will ever play will be
in one of these keys. Shouldn't you practice this way, if you
are going to play inside them every second of your guitar playing
life? Yes! You should! So with Uncle Tim, you will know what
you are playing every second. You will become competent! You will
lose the feeling of being lost all the time.
When I released this series to the music stores
of the U.S., many store owners bought the entire series and took
it home and read it and studied it in entirety. They did this
to become competent and they knew this set of resources would
do it.
I still hear from them all the time and they tell
me this. How many guitar players do you know that have no idea
of what they are doing? I know lots of them. Now you can rise
above them by gaining an understanding of what you are doing.
And it's painless! |
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Uncle Tim's First Year
 All of this is based on Uncle Tim's First Year.
If you have any trouble with the basics, then I strongly suggest
you pick up a copy of this book. Sometimes guitarists start off
with Uncle Tim's Building Blocks and discover it is too advanced.
Then they pick up this book and everything falls into place. If
you want to get clear on the fundamental issues of guitar, this
is the single biggest resource you can get.
Everything I teach is based on this book. All the
other resources either reinforce the meaning presented in this book
or build on it. It is the first tool you should use and you should
use it for a very long time. Uncle Tim's First Year has an excellent
reputation and for very good reason. It is a special book! It
can change your life. It's only 15 bucks! All of these resources
are priced so practically anyone can afford them and they work!
You do not need to spend hundreds of dollars! |
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Uncle Tim's First Year Lesson Program
A book cannot play chords and scales for you and
you can definitely benefit from some audiovisual support. I did
not leave anything out of Uncle Tim's First Year, but I can offer
some additional ways of reinforcing the meaning of what you will
learn. Approaching a problem from different directions, helps
people understand it much better. It can answer lingering questions
in a way no book alone can.
When you combine the rock solid information in
Uncle Tim's First Year with mp3 sound files and flash animation,
video and exercises and progressions, you have some significant
tools for learning and growing. The color pictures compliment
the book and further examine chord and scales. Remember in Uncle
Tim's First Year, every chord has a diagram of how to play it
and a picture of what it should look like. Now you can hear it
and play along with it.
Multimedia does things no book can, but you can't
take your computer with you everywhere either. They work together
to help the user understand every last bit of information. If
you want to learn, we have the answers. Uncle Tim's Lessons are
broken down into semesters and are delivered once a week. The
first semester lasts 12 weeks and covers the first several keys.
Many times just getting through the first semester is enough.
That can give you the boost you need and then you can just use
Uncle Tim's First Year to give you the rest. You may not even
need the entire year long lesson program. Maybe the first semester
is enough to jump start you. |
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As you learn and apply what you are learning, you will develop questions. You might forget how a chord sounds when played in different positions. Or you might not remember all the chords in some of the lesser used keys, So included is a basic chord library. Like all the eBooks, You can print out a personal copy or put the eBook on your desktop for quick reference. But however you choose to use it, you will have a basic library of common chords in all keys available at any time. Each chord is played three different ways and includes an mp3 sound file so you can hear it. Order any of these resources above and get this basic chord eBook and access to the special advanced concept page FREE, and it is delivered at the time of purchase. |
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More Advanced Tools To Help Advanced Guitarists |
  Uncle Tim's Building Blocks and Uncle Tim's Book of Chords. The meat of the advanced program.
You need to have a solid growth path so you continue to build on your very solid foundation. These two books will provide an incredible avenue for growth through the intermediate and advanced levels. Advanced guitarists will find plenty in here to hone their already good skills.
Learn to fully integrate advanced scales with chords. This is not a program that can only take you so far. With Uncle Tim, you are always on the path to becoming a great guitarist and there are always more ideas to get you to the next step no matter how good you already are. These books offer total understanding and control of the entire fretboard. If you are past the beginner stage and trying to become a guitar monster, start here. Remember everything is totally guaranteed to light you up and you risk nothing by trying out anything here. We fully stand behind this work with a 100% money back guarantee.
When I introduced these books, a publisher that serves the recording industry started selling these into recording studios. Needless to say, these guitarists are quite advanced. Recording studios found full time uses for these resources as recording artists need quick access to powerful material they could reference quickly and get back to recording. Need to change a lead statement or alter a big time chord progression? Check out the options in these books and get right back to the session. It works great! The C. F. Martin Guitar Co. also sells these in their company store and web site. These are no ordinary books. |
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Uncle Tim's Guarantee
Everything we do carries Uncle Tim's guarantee. You must be totally happy with your subscription or purchase or you are welcome to your money back. We offer a no quibble, money back guarantee and we have been in business with a web site since 1995. The bottom line is I personally want you to be happy. And I guarantee it. How many people have exercised this guarantee since 1995? One! This is the honest truth. Why? Because Uncle Tim's resources work! Give them a try, you have nothing to lose and everything to gain. |
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eBooks That Offer Advanced
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eBooks
 Make no mistake about it, Uncle Tim's Building Blocks and Book of Chords will fully map and articulate the diatonic keys. But what do you do when you gain an appetite for something more? Easy, you go into the library and select an eBook that fully articulates the subject you are interested in.
Welcome to the most complete library of musical scales and chords available today. No matter if you want pentatonic, Blues, Flat 3rd or Melodic Minor scales or triads or something else, we have the resources. And these resources fully integrate with the Uncle Tim Series for Guitar. Now the fretboard is mapped for whatever subject of interest you have. All visual and all using Uncle Tim's visual mapping system. These are not only the best grids in town, they are the only grids in town! |
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eBooks
Choose From Several Different Types Of Music
Blues Guitar
 If you are interested in Blues guitar, then pick up a copy of the Blues scales or Flat 3rd scales. Have you even heard of Flat 3rd scales? Have you ever seen them articulated anywhere? I map them completely and they are presented visually. You do not have to read music and you can get started right away. And remember all of these eBooks contain a typeset version inside so you can print them out and take them anywhere. You are not bound to your monitor! You can also print out a copy to mark up with notes as you practice. They are meant to be used when you practice and they are quite versatile.
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eBooks
Pentatonic Scales
 The standard pentatonic scales are covered in Uncle Tim's Building Blocks. But did you know there are three different types of Pentatonic scales? Two of these are never articulated and they can change your sound to become even more unique. Your friends will have no idea of how you did it either.
They are Pentatonic scales but they have a unique construction and sound. They will also work hand in hand with Blues scales which are related and very similar to Pentatonic scales but contain an additional note. Now you can drive your understanding to a professional level all without ever reading a single line of musical notation. |
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Jazz Guitar
   We all are aware of the fact there are three different types of minor scales. There are the natural minor scales that go hand in hand with the diatonic majors, but where have you ever seen Harmonic and Melodic scales fully articulated in complete detail. I have never seen more than a smattering of these advanced scales anywhere. Here you can find complete libraries containing 100% of all of these scales. All presented visually!
But that is not all. If you are going to play Harmonic scales, you might want to brush up on Harmonic triads. Don't forget, the Harmonic form of the minor scale changes a single note and that will ripple through all the triads in each key. The standard triads will not reflect this complex form of music. But the Harmonic triads will fit like a glove. I have articulated these triads in complete detail too. These eBooks work hand in hand and will provide complete Harmonic instruction. Jazz guitar is in part built around these groups of chords and scales and now you can have the complete sets of this information. This is available nowhere else. |
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Specialty Chords
  Maybe you just want to add a few new chords to your playing and some more complex sounds. Suspended 2nd and 4th chords are a very fun way to do it. They are simple and very helpful in pop and rock songs. They will spice up the old standard routines and progressions and add flavors you can pull out to create intense emotional statements.
They work hand in hand with standard Diatonic keys and add a distinct flavor. I suggest you start with the standard second inversion suspended 4th chords because they are easy, fun and complete. They work great with pop and rock. |
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eBook Special
 Order any eBook and get access to a special page that will show you the difference between all the different scale types. Did you know all scale groups are designed to a specific section of the twelve possible notes? Did you know that all these types of scales work together? They all cover a certain selection of notes, and if you look at them as a group, they completely cover the chromatic scale. Each variation of scale, fills a certain niche, together they cover the whole thing. All of this is related and these scales will prove it in a very enlightening way. This page alone can unify your understanding of all forms of music. This is extremely advanced information and yet presented in such a way, you can easily see how they all do something distinct and related to each other. I had to articulate the whole bunch before this became clear. When I learned it, it really blew my mind. This is information almost no one knows. It is extremely advanced and very enlightening.
Example: The Pentatonic group is designed to cover all the different combinations of important notes and maintain a five note scale. When you see how the different notes are used in each scale, you can see the entire overall strategy of the Pentatonic group. But that is not all, the Blues and Flat 3rd scales are also very closely related. They are, in a sense, extensions of the Pentatonic group. This page alone can help guide you to understand what options you have for future development. If you have an intense desire to understand the complete depth of linear statements and lead guitar, you will not find the equivalent of this page anywhere. This information is the result of many, many years of study and writing. It can give you an in-depth understanding of scales that is totally unavailable anywhere. |
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If you are ready to supercharge your playing with new and exciting information, then click here to start the journey. And remember that all of these resources are completely 100% guaranteed to help you. There is no way I will let you leave unhappy. The risk is totally mine and you have my word on it. This is always a condition of how I do business.
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