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Free Guitar Lesson - Learning Scales This free guitar lesson lets a little light on the subject of scales. Guitar players are always looking for ways to make their solo playing sound more interesting. Our audiences only keep coming back to our gigs if they feel that we have more to... ( added 133 days 11 hours ago.)
Teach Yourself Guitar Chords Yes, you can teach yourself guitar chords. In fact, there's a couple of ways that you can go about it. Guitar chords give you an easy way to accompany yourself singing, and you don't necessarily have to know any guitar theory to do that because... ( added 138 days 15 hours ago.)
Playing Rhythm Guitar If you have been wondering what rhythm guitar is and how it fits into a band, then this article should help you. Let's start with the fact that playing rhythm guitar is not a hard and fast style of playing. After all, a band is a group of... ( added 138 days 15 hours ago.)
Learning The Guitar Fretboard It's easy to learn the notes on a keyboard instrument because one octave is repeated all the way along. Once you can identify the notes in one octave, you can find them in all the octaves. With the guitar there are no obvious repeated patterns... ( added 145 days 1 hour ago.)
Learn To Play Lead Guitar You should learn some scales if you are going to learn to play lead guitar. Start in the first position which is the notes found in the first four frets on the guitar. The E major scale is E F# G# A B C# D# E. If we think of this scale as a... ( added 145 days 1 hour ago.)
The Best Guitars For Beginners When you go looking for the best guitars for beginners, take a guitar player with you. Electric guitars could have warped necks or rattling hardware and the beginner guitarist will not have a clue that anything is significantly out of place.... ( added 180 days 11 hours ago.)
The Blues Solo And How To Approach It You want to get off to a good start as a blues guitar player, you will need five notes. Well, five notes in any key. The five notes you will need is a scale called the minor pentatonic. If you are playing in the key of E the notes you are going to... ( added 184 days 23 hours ago.)
Playing The Electric Guitar - How To Begin Some experienced guitar players will tell you that the steel strings of an electric guitar are too hard on the fingers to allow a newbie guitarist to start playing right away. Well, that's true but the electric guitar needs very little left hand... ( added 184 days 23 hours ago.)
Learn To Play Bluegrass Guitar The guitar player in bluegrass music was not always play solos. As with some other folk styles from various parts of the world, the guitar was originally just part of the rhythm section. The guitarist could be heard playing the odd bass run but... ( added 184 days 23 hours ago.)
Eric Clapton Guitar Settings - The Woman Sound Eric Clapton has used many guitar settings in a career that goes across several decades but people are still fascinated by the sound that people call the "woman" tone. If you don't know what that means listen to the Cream track, "Sunshine Of Your... ( added 184 days 23 hours ago.)
Download Guitar Backing Tracks To Become The Complete Guitarist Backing tracks are audio tracks you can buy or download that give you accompaniment to your guitar practice. As you grow as a guitar player, you will find that your backing tracks, sometimes referred to as "jamtracks" will be as useful a tool as... ( added 184 days 23 hours ago.)
Beatles For Classical Guitar One of the big events in fingerstyle guitar playing many years ago was the publication of a music book called "Beatles For Classical Guitar". This was the world's first attempt to mix the simplicity of the Beatles' tunes with the complexity of... ( added 184 days 23 hours ago.)
Learn To Play Blues Guitar Solos And Make Them Yours When you first think about learning to play blues guitar solos you will be faced with wanting to play the blues like the guitar players of the past, but at the same time you don't want to just play their material note for note. The sooner you get... ( added 201 days 10 hours ago.)
Learning The Acoustic Guitar Learning the acoustic guitar is not difficult but what can be a little tedious is wading through the swamp of advice from friends, family and the internet. Come to think of it, a lot of advice is better than no advice so maybe it's just a question... ( added 205 days 11 hours ago.)
Learn How To Write And Play A Guitar Solo If you want to learn how to write a guitar solo, you need to see yourself as the teacher. Most people start by learning riffs and licks from records. You don't have to learn whole solos note for note but you can just put together a collection of... ( added 205 days 11 hours ago.)
Learn Guitar - Tab Or Sheet Music? Many guitarists are adamant that the only way to learn guitar is by learning to read sheet music. Some even go so far as to say that if all guitar tab was removed from the world the level of guitar playing would be much higher. The main objection... ( added 205 days 12 hours ago.)
Is There A Fingerpicking Guitar? What is a fingerpicking guitar? There has always been a division of acoustic guitars between "folk" and "classical" which mostly refers to whether the guitar is fitted with nylon or steel strings. A nylon string guitar is ideal for fingerpicking... ( added 219 days 16 hours ago.)
How To Use A Capo On The Guitar The capo is a barre that clamps across the strings of your guitar in much the same way as your index finger does when you are playing a barre chord. It is usually made of rubber or metal and it is clamped to the guitar neck by means of an elastic... ( added 223 days 12 hours ago.)
Finding Guitar Tabs For Songs And Riffs People with a taste for guitar orientated songs often find themselves limited by their own tastes in music. We all have a fairly narrow range of musical experience and we often need some advice on what else is out there to add to our repertoire of... ( added 225 days 16 hours ago.)
Learn Guitar Parts - The Guitar Neck If your guitar neck is worn out maybe you're looking for someone who can replace or repair it. Or maybe you want to repair your guitar neck yourself. Your guitar's neck needs some understanding, so let's take a look at some common issues... ( added 229 days 12 hours ago.)
Fast Guitar Picking If you want to learn some fast guitar picking you will find plenty of advice on the internet. Do a web search on "fast guitar picking" or "guitar shredding" and you will find exercises and advice on guitar forums and websites. Fast guitar picking... ( added 235 days 21 hours ago.)
Guitar Theory Lesson - The Circle Of Fifths Guitar theory has its place in any style of music. Once you have a few songs under your belt, you can improvise a little using the minor pentatonic scale and you know what I IV V means, you can begin to grow as a guitar player. But not... ( added 235 days 21 hours ago.)
Online Classical Guitar Lessons The classical guitar is the prototype acoustic guitar. It's the model all other acoustic guitars are based on. The difference is the classical guitar usually has a much wider fretboard and uses nylon instead of steel strings. Also strumming the... ( added 244 days ago.)
Very Easy Guitar Tabs Novice guitar players are always looking for very easy guitar tabs. That's okay as long as you are aware that if you persevere with your guitar playing, your easy guitar tabs will start to get old. When we start off as guitar players we are... ( added 264 days 12 hours ago.)
Bass Guitar Basics There are basic bits of equipment that you need to include when you buy your first bass guitar. The guy in the guitar store is going to want to sell you a boatload of accessories but you only need a few basic things to make up your basic bass... ( added 265 days 12 hours ago.)
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