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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 …

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. …

Guitar sheet music can be found in a lot of variations. There are piano/guitar/vocal sheets that typically have piano and vocal parts with guitar chords written over the top of the music stave so a guitar player can follow along. Since only chords are used, these sheets are pretty easy for guitar players who have …

Christian music is a musical genre that can be extremely religious and spiritual or might simply be music with lyrics that have spiritual overtones and use spiritual metaphors. Throughout the decades, Christian music could be heard in heavy metal (Stryper), rock bands (Petra), contemporary pop (Amy Grant,) and many country artists who have sporadically incorporated …

I want to discuss online guitar lessons a little bit. The Internet is an amazing place to learn to play guitar. You could surf the net night and day and never tap into all the lessons for guitar players online. Rather than do an online guitar lessons review of specific websites, I’m going to discuss …

Introduction I remember the first time I opened a guitar tab book. This was years ago, long before the Internet. Guitar tablature books were expensive. Every time I bought one, I milked it for all I could get. I’d learn guitar tabs from the time I woke up until the time I went to bed. …

There are tons of guitar apps and guitar software products on the market today. Some of it is designed to teach you to play guitar, some of it is more reference based, and some of it is actually designed for writing or recording guitar music. The cost of guitar software varies and the quality and …