Guitar licks are the building blocks of solos. They can also be used as fills throughout a song. There are a myriad of common guitar licks and variations on those licks created by guitar players throughout history. Many guitarists can readily be identified by the types of licks they tend to use, almost like a …
Learning to play guitar well can be a challenge. A lot of people start out wanting to learn and quickly realize that it takes a little more time and determination than they original thought. Some people are lucky enough to be able to afford a personal teacher who can structure a lesson plan that introduces …
I was lucky when I first started playing bass and guitar, and I’ve been lucky quite a few times since. My first instrument was a Fender Jazz bass, courtesy of my mother. My second instrument was a Rickenbacker bass. I’ve owned a Gibson SG bass, a Les Paul, a couple of Fenders, and a variety …
Let’s face it, we pick up the guitar because we want to play songs. Some of us do it because we want the girls too, but we still want to play songs. We do, of course, need to learn some of the basic stuff, like how to pick, strum, and play a variety of chords, …
What Fusion Guitar playing is exactly can be sort of ambiguous. It is a term thrown around pretty casually. By definition, fusion means the blending, or fusing, of more than one styles. Technically, if you’re guitar playing is a combination of country and rock techniques and styles, then you are a country/rock fusion guitarist. The …
The Internet is a playground for guitar players of all levels, regardless of your skill level. Guitar tab websites provide free tabs for the songs beginning guitar players want to play, guitar websites offer free guitar lessons for beginners that teach everything from how to memorize chord shapes and how to build chords to scales …
Flamenco refers to both a style of dance and a style of music that originated in Southern Spanish regions. Through the years, however, the style of music has evolved and mutated and found its way into other cultures. As a result, those guitar scales considered as flamenco guitar scales have grown to include many variations, …
Riffs are the all important building blocks that can make a song stand out in the minds of listeners. A riff is a grouping of notes that is typically played throughout a song as the rhythmic foundation or played frequently throughout the song, either in the verse, the chorus, or as an opening or ending. …
Tablature for guitar, by its nature, is pretty easy to understand. Six lines that represent the guitar strings and numbers placed on the lines to indicate which frets are used is all you need to understand about guitar tab notation. This is an easier system of notation for most guitarists than the standard method of …
Easy Guitar Tabs Songs didn’t start showing up regularly until I was in my twenties. Before that, learning songs was mostly a matter of listening to recordings and trying to play what you heard. This could take anywhere from hours to weeks, depending on how hard a song was. Even relatively easy songs could take a …