26th November 2009
There are some stages you have to go through in learning how to play the guitar. In effect, you need to become a different person. You stop looking at music and playing guitar from the outside and you start to take action. You can be flexible in the order...
24th November 2009
When we begin to learn how to play guitar, our bodies change the way they work and our brains get connected to our bodies through the new skills we are learning. After a few months of practice plus some guidance from a teacher, we become familiar with the...
23rd November 2009
The job of practicing scales on the guitar can be quite tedious. It is hard work without any immediate reward and the long term reward is kind of not very clear. There is a reason why you need to learn scales on the guitar. When you are improvising or com...
19th October 2009
Many beginner guitar players are bamboozled by guitar tabs. The fact is, it's easy to understand guitar sheet music and tab as long as you remember a few basic ideas. Guitar tabs and sheet music are languages that guitar players use to show each other son...
19th October 2009
You can download chord charts from the internet or buy them in book form from a music store. Chord charts are a pictorial representation of the strings of the guitar with dots showing where your fingers go to fret the notes. Once you are armed with a coll...
08th October 2009
The quest for popular acoustic guitar songs begins when you find that you have acquired some expertise on your acoustic guitar, and you have realized that your favorite songs don't fill as much time as you thought they would. So as an acoustic guitar play...
08th October 2009
When you begin to get the hang of guitar playing, one of the things on your to-do list will probably to get some tab for Spanish guitar pieces and see what it feels like to play some of that exotic sounding guitar music. When you start looking round, you ...
05th October 2009
Country music is extremely popular and country tab for guitar is one of the most sought-after types of learning materials for guitar players. There are lots of different techniques that you can use to play country guitar: fingerstyle techniques, chicken p...
02nd October 2009
Fingerpicking guitar is a great way to become a "real" guitarist reasonably quickly. You are playing the melody of a song as well as the bass line and the chord accompaniment. This not only helps you develop a deep understanding of guitar playing, but wil...
01st October 2009
Learning guitar chord playing is not going to be easy. But it will be a relatively short-term ordeal with great rewards at the end. There are some questions that learner guitar chord players are faced with that should be mentioned right at the start so yo...
30th September 2009
Any blues beginner guitar player will need to learn the chords and chord progressions that are used in blues music. When you start to learn to play the guitar you will be learning open chords which are mostly a matter of practice without too much pain, bu...
28th September 2009
Paco de Lucia was born in 1947 began studying the guitar as a child, and started his career as a professional guitar player at the age of thirteen with Jose Greco's flamenco dance company. Paco spent much of his time locked in his room practicing on his g...
28th September 2009
If you are looking for a Fender Stratocaster, eBay is probably worth a browse. Many famous guitar players favored the Strat, so why not try to get this distinguished instrument for a bargain basement price?
The name Fender Stratocaster is a little bit ...
23rd September 2009
Of all classical guitar pieces, Greensleeves is the most recognizable to the greatest number of people. This makes it a great piece for beginner guitarists to learn to play because, to friends and family, the measure of your progress as a guitar player is...
23rd September 2009
Playing scales is a part of all music education and learning how to play scales on guitar can turn you from an amateur guitar player to a guitarist who can improvise on any tune. The trouble with scales is that learning to play them takes daily practice. ...
