I’ve heard the phrase that nothing in life is free. That’s not always the case. The Internet is full of free stuff for guitar players. When I was learning, long before there was an Internet, I had to hope there was sheet music available for a song I wanted to learn, or I had to …
Guitar teachers often struggle with keeping students interested. A lot of beginning guitar players want to be able to play something right away, and it’s always a good idea to accommodate them. Teaching students to play something, even if it’s only a new song every other week, is a great way to keep up their …
Acoustic guitar playing is one of the purest forms of guitar playing. With an electric guitar, you have volume and guitar effects that can help process what you play or give it a different sound. With an acoustic, there’s nothing to come between you and what you play. For this reason, a lot of beginning …
An easy guitar riff is a riff that is typically made up of just a few notes that create a very recognizable pattern. It can also be based around a set pattern of chords that form the foundation of a song. A riff is a building block. Many songs, such as the Stones’ “(I Can’t …
Country music is fun to play. The songs often contain elements of folk, rock, and blues. The lyrics are typically rich in story. This makes playing country music fun for everybody from straight country musicians to guitar players who simply enjoy getting into the groove. Finding easy country guitar tabs to play isn’t difficult. There …
A guitar lick is a musical phrase which can stand alone or acts as one element of a solo. Some guitarists are recognized by the licks they play. Chuck Berry and his double stop bends come to mind. IN fact, one of my favorite licks can be found in the opening phrase to “Johnny B. …
Classical guitar playing is often considered more difficult to play than other types of music. A lot of beginning guitar players shy away from it for fear they aren’t capable of learning classical guitar or that they don’t have the discipline. Lots of rock players may be afraid it isn’t cool to play classical, when, …
A lot of people who pick up the bass might do it initially with the false belief that bass guitar is easier to play than guitar because it has less strings. In fact, I’ve heard quite a few people actually say this. Maybe that’s true to an extent, particularly when it comes to forming chords, …
The old saying goes, if you play bass guitar, you’ll always work. That’s because there are a lot of guitar players. Everybody wants to be the guitar player. The guitar player gets the girls, the bass player gets the work. That’s not always the case, but there are a lot of guitar players out there, …
Nothing sounds as good as the blues, especially when they’re played on an acoustic guitar. While most of the early blues players never wrote anything down or couldn’t read a note of music to save their lives, over the years their work has been dissected, analyzed, and transcribed, and arranged numerous times throughout the decades. …