Guitar scales are helpful for any guitar player. Regular guitar scale practice can help develop your, build speed and dexterity, and help build a roadmap of your fretboard. For some beginning guitar players practicing seems like a chore, but it doesn’t have to be. There are plenty of ways to practice your guitar scales without …
A guitar riff is a cool thing. The best guitar riffs are memorable and get stuck in your head. Think about Deep Purple’s “Smoke on the Water” or just about anything by AC/DC. A guitar riff is a musical pattern that can be built around chords, single notes, or a combination of the two, and …
It takes practice to learn to play the guitar. Sometimes lots of practice. The good news is, there are a lot of ways you can practice. Not everybody learns the same way, and when it comes to play guitar, or any instrument, this couldn’t be more true. Here are some guitar practice tips that can …
Acoustic guitar is an easy instrument to learn to play casually and a difficult one to master. Many beginners don’t want to master the instrument, however, they just want to be able to play a few of their favorite songs to impress their friends or entertain themselves. The good thing about acoustic guitar is that …
Many of us dream of attending school and majoring in guitar, music composition, or music theory. Unfortunately, this can be quite expensive. Unless you have the money to attend a college that offers the high-quality specialized music courses necessary to major in music, you might be resigned to private teachers and the Internet, neither of …
Guitar tablature, normally referred to as guitar tab, is a cool way for string players to read and write music. It’s most associated with guitar players. The system is simple. Six horizontal lines represent the six strings on the guitar and numbers placed on those lines indicate the fret number to be played. This is …
A Guitar Scale Generator is a useful tool for guitarists. It come in the form of a wheel device. These days, the Internet makes it even easier to find guitar scale generators. There a lot of websites that have built in generators that let you plug in a series of notes or a root note. …
If you want to learn to play guitar, the first thing you need to come to grips with that you’re going to need to practice. That’s a word that scares a lot of us. After all, we just want to play guitar. Who said anything about practicing? Truth is, nothing worth doing comes easy, and …
Most beginning guitar players want to play something right away. While it does take years of hard work and practice to become a proficient player, it’s possible to get into playing some of your favorite songs in rudimentary form right away. Some people are blessed with a great ear and can sit down and pick …
A scale is a series of notes, or tones, from the chromatic scale arranged in steps to create various scales. The chromatic scale simply refers to all of the notes in western music. Below is the chromatic scale. The sharps can also be indicated as flats. For example, a C# is also a Db. This …