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Terrifying Guitar Tricks – A Guide for Beginners
It’s easy for your guitar playing to get stuck in a rut. It’s inevitable that when you really work on a style and sound of your own you can find yourself repeating the same things over and over, eventually boring yourself with your own playing. It can be hard to break out of this feeling, [...]
Learn How To Tune The Guitar In Five Minutes
You can try to play a guitar all you like, but if it is not in tune you may as well give up. This is why many people who try to learn the guitar get upset and think they are not playing well, as they are following the guitar lessons properly, but the guitar just [...]
Everything You Always Wanted To Know About 7th Chords And 9th Chords
In the world of music, there are a lot of different chords which comprise the sonic palette of every musician (unless of course, you’re a drummer- but even if you are, keep reading; there’s an opportunity to learn here). An open chord is one where none of the notes being played are flats or sharps. [...]
The Importance And Methods Of Tuning A Guitar
Almost all musical instruments require tuning, with the possible exception of certain percussion instruments. The guitar, as an instrument made from natural materials, and with a natural degree of tension stored up in the strings, needs retuning on a fairly frequent basis. This is especially important for a guitar since each of the six or [...]
The Beginning Of The Age Of The Fender Stratocaster
Perhaps one of the most famous and best known names in the world of electric guitars is that of Fender, and it was in 1946 that Clarence Leonidas Fender, usually referred to simply as Leo Fender, created the design for the first electric guitar to have a solid body, and a pickup that worked through [...]
What Exactly Is A Harp Guitar?
Many people have never even heard of harp guitars, and their appearance on stage or in a music hall is likely to generate interest end curiosity before it has even begun to be played. A harp guitar sounds very much as though it has managed to combine the standard guitar with an instrument normally seen [...]
Guitar Chord Theory – Some Basics For Beginners
The dictionary defines a chord as; A combination of usually three or more musical tones sounded simultaneously. On a guitar the most commonly used chords are probably power chords, a chord simply consisting of the root note and the fifth. They sound great with loads of gain, and most modern rock songs are build around [...]
Basic Music Theory for Guitar – Scales and Keys
To a beginner the world of music theory can seem a daunting one. There are a lot of terms, phrases and ideas that can seem so foreign that they may as well be a different language. Understandably this puts a lot of new players off from starting to learn music theory and apply it to [...]
Want The Same Action Stevie Ray Had?
We all want the same action Stevie Ray Vaughan had. I mean guitar action, string height, neck relief, fret level. I’m talking the way the action on his guitar is set up. Why would someone want a guitar setup like Stevie Rays? Well for one thing, he is one of the best blues guitar players [...]
How To Change Guitar Chords
When you are learning how to play the guitar, changing chords will be something you need to do all of the time. When you first start it is quite bewildering and most beginners think they will never be able to change chords because they cannot even manage the simple ones. Well, don’t despair! At the [...]
