Nita Strauss Shares Her Top Tip for Better Guitar Playing

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Alice Cooper guitarist Nita Strauss recently shared her number-one playing tip in a video for UltimateGuitarTV.

Strauss’s advice is all about using a metronome.

"It seems like a no-brainer, I know, but a lot of people aren't doing it,” she explains. “So today, I'm going to walk you through the steps that I used with the metronome when I have something new to learn.”

Strauss demonstrates her method using a three-string sweep arpeggio that starts in a minor pattern and moves to a major pattern.

Christopher Scapelliti is editor-in-chief of Guitar Player magazine, the world’s longest-running guitar magazine, founded in 1967. In his extensive career, he has authored in-depth interviews with such guitarists as Pete Townshend, Slash, Billy Corgan, Jack White, Elvis Costello and Todd Rundgren, and audio professionals including Beatles engineers Geoff Emerick and Ken Scott. He is the co-author of Guitar Aficionado: The Collections: The Most Famous, Rare, and Valuable Guitars in the World, a founding editor of Guitar Aficionado magazine, and a former editor with Guitar World, Guitar for the Practicing Musician and Maximum Guitar. Apart from guitars, he maintains a collection of more than 30 vintage analog synthesizers.

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