Want to rock out on that acoustic blues guitar like B.B. King or Buddy Guy? Here are some simple blues guitar tips to help you play those sweet, sweet tunes: Use vibrato to make your music “shake” — When you play blues, a lot of the notes on the guitar are held for a long …
You asked for it! “Folsom Prison Blues Guitar Tab”. Folsom Prison Blues was written and recorded by Johnny Cash in 1955. Cash said he was inspired to write the song after seeing the movie “Inside The Walls of Folsom Prison” while he was serving in the United States Air Force in 1951. He recorded it …
Like alternate tunings, slide, whammy bars, and tremolo effect pedals, there is a time and a place for every guitar technique known to man. Shredding guitar is no different. Steve Vai recently conducted a Reddit Ask Me Anything forum, and one of the questions pertained to shredding. And Vai gave a very simple but powerful …
As Bernie Taupin once wrote and Elton John sang, the sad songs say so much, don’t they? There probably isn’t a guitar player on the planet that hasn’t at some point been in the mood to play a mournful ballad, or strum a tender melody of loss and regret. On the other hand, there’s Eric …
Guitar isn’t the first instrument that comes to mind when contemplating Romantic Guitar Songs – mostly I think of sappy string sections or Barry Manilow playing a grand piano. However, there are hundreds if not thousands of romantic guitar songs, and many of them are fairly to ridiculously easy to play. So, for those nights …
What up guitar fans, Darrin Goodman here with another little guitar lesson for ya’, today I will be talking about exotic guitar scales What makes an exotic guitar scale is a loaded question and depends on where you are coming from as to what “exotic” means, but if you are in the western world like …
Hey, how’s it going this is Claude Johnson with Guitar Control, I’m going to show you how to play “Woman Across the River” by Freddie King. It’s basically a blues but there’s some twists that are not going to be your normal twelve bar blues. So it starts off the Intros G7 to F7 to …
During my first year of learning to play guitar, I practiced regularly – mainly chords and songs – and was generally satisfied with my progress. But after learning the three main chord groups (major, minor, and dominant – basically enough to play every Beatle song in their catalog), plus the major and minor scales, I …
There are two main elements of learning to play the guitar: Psychological and physical. Unquestionably, the most important psychological part of learning to play the guitar is personal motivation. It doesn’t matter where you are, what kind of guitar you have, or what type of music you want to play. The question is: How bad …
Sup fellow guitar freaks, Darrin Goodman here with another little bit of guitar goodies for ya’. Today I want to give you a little electric guitar lesson on a really important technique, alternate picking. Alternate picking is basically where you don’t do two down strokes or two upstrokes in a row. This is very important …