The acoustic guitar is a popular instrument to learn, particularly for beginners who enjoy music and just want to have a guitar on hand to entertain themselves or friends and family. It’s affordability and versatility make it ideal for beginning or hobby guitar players. Like any instrument, however, acoustic guitar does require a bit of …
What’s one of the main things we all love about rock ‘n roll? Is it the killer riffs, the screaming vocals, the pounding drumbeats, or the chugging bass lines? Well, maybe, but we’re forgetting one other thing… sick guitar solos! Everyone loves it when they hear some real shredding and beautiful melodies from rock guitar …
So you’ve sharpened your chops and you’re looking for a challenge? There are a lot of easy guitar songs to play, but there are just as many songs out there that only the best of the best can attempt. Here are a few of the hardest guitar songs you’ll ever attempt. Let’s start with “Blitzkrieg” …
Blues is a distinctly American musical form that has influenced music the world over. While many people believe you need to be broke, sad, and down-trodden to play the blues, the truth is, you can be a happy blues player. All it takes is the willingness to listen to the music and put some effort …
Are you looking for online free guitar lessons? Then you’re in the right place! Here at Guitar Control, we have a wealth of information for guitar players of all levels and styles, and much of it is available to you for free. Depending on how you learn best, we offer you several great options for …
Scales are an essential part of music whether we consciously think about using them or not. A guitar scales book should be a part of any beginning guitar players arsenal. When I first started playing, I knew I wanted to understand how music was made, and I knew pretty quickly that scales were the building …
Major and minor scales are the fundamental building blocks for other scales and modes that guitar players often find more interesting. The blues scale, the major and minor pentatonic scales are three guitar scales to practice beginner guitarists should know. That isn’t to say that you can ignore the major and minor scales. Those scales …
Gypsy jazz is a sub genre of jazz music with somewhat ambiguous roots, although its beginnings are frequently attributed to jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt and considered to have grown into existence in the 1930s. You’ll often see the music referred as jazz manouche, the French pronunciation, due in large part because the music has its …
Guitar tab music has been around longer than you might think. Early examples of tab date back to the classical period of music. Popular modern use has been around for decades, resulting in an explosion of guitar tab music in book and online at hundreds of websites that specialize in delivering note for note guitar …
There’s nothing as exciting to a guitar player as finding a tab version of one of his favorite songs or of a particularly challenging solo, and it’s even better when the guitar tab doesn’t cost you anything. Thanks to all the tab sites vying for your attention online, guitar tab free content has exploded. There …