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05th October 2009
Tuning your acoustic guitar is the first step in your guitar playing career. Whether by skill, talent or technology, you must be able to get your guitar into tune.
One common obstacle to learning to tune a guitar is a certain natural resistance to aqui... Read >
Author: Lord Abnev Solutionfinders01st 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... Read >
Author: Ricky Sharples17th September 2009
Here is a free acoustic guitar lesson to help you improve your guitar playing skills quickly.
This guitar learning techique will teach you how to fingerpick folk-style, but in a Latin rhythm in the key of A. This Latin rhythm has eight quick beats ... Read >
Author: wbdoyle17th September 2009
Tuning your acoustic guitar is the first step in your guitar playing career. Whether by skill, talent or technology, you must be able to get your guitar into tune.
One common obstacle to learning to tune a guitar is a certain natural resistance to aqui... Read >
Author: wbdoyle31st August 2009
The flamenco is a time honored musical and dance genre that originated in Spain. Flamenco developed in Andalusia due to the interaction between Arabic, Andalusian, Sephardic and Gypsy cultures in the area in the 19th century, although forms of the music a... Read >
Author: Kristin Royce10th August 2009
Acoustic guitar flatpicking techniques are components of the language that helps you to speak to your audience. As you do not have the electronic effects an electric guitarist has at his disposal, you are left with the flatpicking techniques you can use t... Read >
Author: Ricky Sharples23rd July 2009
The easiest way to tune your guitar is by relative tuning. Relative tuning is comparing the sound and pitch of adjacent strings. The string with the higher pitch is tuned to match the sound of the lower string. In this method, there is the assumption that... Read >
Author: Paul Gian23rd July 2009
Using a tuning fork is a popular way to tune a guitar and other instruments. A tuning fork is a two prong device that has a stem and is shaped like a U. They are usually made of steel. The tuning fork gives off a certain pitch when it is struck against a ... Read >
Author: Paul Gian11th July 2009
Guitar tabs are the easiest of the two ways for a beginner to learn to read music. In order to read standard musical notation the beginner needs to understand a little music theory and learn what all the notation symbols mean but with guitar tabs, instead... Read >
Author: Ricky Sharples11th July 2009
Guitar tabs are the easiest of the two ways for a beginner to learn to read music. In order to read standard musical notation the beginner needs to understand a little music theory and learn what all the notation symbols mean but with guitar tabs, instead... Read >
Author: Ricky Sharples18th June 2009
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 that can he... Read >
Author: Ricky Sharples11th June 2009
Learning where to put your fingers to form guitar chords is not a problem. There are plenty of chord charts and tabs available online and in books. Learning how to play the chords usually presents the learner guitar player with a challenge or two.
A ne... Read >
Author: Ricky Sharples08th April 2009
Over the past few years quite a few guitar players have learnt the "slap technique". When you are playing the acoustic guitar the question sometimes cones up of what to do to make your guitar playing a little more interesting. This is where stuff like str... Read >
Author: Ricky Sharples27th March 2009
If you want to play the guitar or write songs you will need to know something, at least, about guitar music theory. You could break down guitar theory down to the study of three elements: chords, scales and arpeggios.
Scales come easily to some people ... Read >
Author: Ricky Sharples28th January 2009
In the beginning the electric guitar was just an instrument used to give the guitar player in a band the chance to be heard. Then along came fifties guitar player, Link Wray who pioneered the use of overdriven sound and distortion. He also introduced rock... Read >
Author: Ricky Sharples26th January 2009
The influence of Jimi Hendrix as a guitar player is undeniable. He lived in an age populated by guitar legends and became a legend among them. Did Jimi Hendrix's guitar have any special part in the making of the legend or would Jimi have made his mark wit... Read >
Author: Ricky Sharples22nd January 2009
Metal guitar is a very popular genre with people who feel that negativity and hopelessness are not getting a fair go in modern music. If you are reading an article called "Metal Guitar Lesson" you probably have an idea about what Metal is but if you don't... Read >
Author: Ricky Sharples09th January 2009
If you are one of the many people looking to learn guitar notes, what are you going to do with these notes when you learn them? There is an idea alive and well in alot of people's heads that if you want to learn how to play the guitar, all you need is to ... Read >
Author: Ricky Sharples16th December 2008
Guitar techniques do not need to be difficult for beginners, in fact it is a great boost for your enthusiasm when you start to master one or two easy guitar techniques. As the left hand and the right hand both need attention when you are a guitar beginner... Read >
Author: Ricky Sharples04th December 2008
For every song there is a guitar solo. This article is essentially a couple of lessons on playing guitar solos. If you are learning to play the guitar without the benefit of a teacher these lessons playing guitar solos will give you some basic material to... Read >
Author: Ricky Sharples01st December 2008
For any beginner guitar student, the ability to play barre chords could be challenging. However, the effort to master the skills is well worth it. Any baree chord requires some technical ability but makes chord playning much simpler and easier.
The bea... Read >
24th November 2008
After many years Hotel California is still a classic. The words and chords are sought after items by guitar players young and old. Below are the words to Hotel California with the chord names inserted into the lines in brackets to avoid the complications ... Read >
Author: Ricky Sharples04th November 2008
Left handed people can become guitar players but there are some adjustments you need to make to your guitar and your outlook. First if you think that you "should" be right handed because that is how guitars are designed, think again. If the hand that keep... Read >
Author: Ricky Sharples27th October 2008
Although it is not hard to read, many novice guitar players seem to be daunted by the prospect of learning something new. The real difficulty with learning how to read guitar tab is more of a mental block than a real challenge. Even though tablature has a... Read >
Author: Ricky Sharples26th September 2008
The acoustic guitar is a popular instrument amongst all age groups and is a very rewarding instrument to learn to play even though you do not get to fool around with cool electric guitar sounds. So let us take a look at the techniques you will learn as an... Read >
Author: Ricky Sharples24th September 2008
If you are new guitar player who wants to make a career or a hobby out of playing blues guitar, then this essay will give you the basic points to get you on your way as a player and interpreter of the blues. Or maybe you have no intention of specializing ... Read >
Author: Ricky Sharples17th March 2008
Has the guitar ever fascinated you? If you dream of playing it, your first step should be to learn the basics of guitaring. The guitar is used in a range of musical styles. A guitar normally has six strings, but there are those that have two, four, eight... Read >
Author: pcarp19th February 2008
When you tune up a guitar, you change the stress tension on one string at a time. However while you’re at it, you are putting tension on the other strings. So it is a very good idea to make a few passes over all six strings while tuning.
All this tu... Read >
Author: Peter Gitundu19th February 2008
A chord is a collection of notes that create one harmoniuos sound together. This is played by strings, embedded with a guitar. This instrument can be adjustable according to different user requirements and playing styles. It can be compose with notes with... Read >
Author: Peter Gitundu19th February 2008
Guitar chords are a collection of tones that sound together at a time when played on a guitar. These chords are set up on the guitar in such a way that they can be optimally used for many playing styles. The notes composed can be composed with the guitar ... Read >
Author: Peter Gitundu21st January 2008
At one time or another it is going to be required of you to make certain adjustments on your guitar, in order for you to play it at its fullest capabilities, with the kind of quality that you know it has. It is important to know how to make these adjustme... Read >
Author: Chris Simpson07th January 2007
The Spanish Guitar Emerges:
With the coming of the Renaissance, inspired in part by Moslem learning brought home by returning Crusaders, the lute become the favorite instrument of Western Europe.
In Spain however, the lute was already overshadowed b... Read >
Author: Mike Hayes26th July 2006
Ultimate Guitar Tab
I have been studying ultimate guitar tab for over 15 years. Ultimate guitar tab changed my life and allowed me to play music without the knowledge of how to read music. I actually did know how to read music, but ultimate guitar tab ... Read >
Author: Eric Stein04th June 2006
If you've always wanted to learn how to play guitar, here's good news...
Many people have taught themselves guitar, and you can too! The truth is that the guitar is one of the easiest instruments to learn to play... but, of course, you will need to pra... Read >
Author: AlliGurl05th March 2006
Tuning your guitar might make you feel just a little
uncomfortable the first time if you have never done
it before. It is really simple once you get the hang
of it and should become part of your regular guitar
preparation before you play or start your... Read >
Author: Jason Pearson23rd January 2006
Here is a free acoustic guitar lesson to help you improve your guitar playing skills quickly.
This guitar learning techique will teach you how to fingerpick folk-style, but in a Latin rhythm in the key of A. This Latin rhythm has eight quick beats to t... Read >
Author: AlliGurl
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