Acoustic guitar is a versatile instrument and ideal for beginners who want to learn how to play guitar. You can pick one up for a relatively decent price and it’s easy to store and easy to carry around with you. You can learn acoustic guitar in a variety of ways. Printed methods, the Internet, or …
Playing lead guitar is the dream of almost anybody who hears a great guitar solo and picks up the guitar to learn how to play. Thankfully the Internet offers countless websites with lead guitar lessons free of charge. The lessons available range from scale and theory lessons to actual playing techniques and even note-for-note transcriptions …
A lot of people who decide they want to learn to play guitar believe the only way to actually get anywhere is by getting a guitar teacher or attending some sort of guitar class, but this is far from the truth. You can teach yourself to play and you can do it in the comfort …
Learning to play guitar isn’t something that can be accomplished overnight. So many music lovers run out and buy a guitar because they want to learn how to play their favorite songs, or maybe they have aspirations of making it in the music business. These are realistic goals, but what isn’t realistic is the belief …
Guitar Shredding is a style of guitar playing that takes time and lots of practice to do well. Guitarists who shred use a variety of techniques that facilitate the ability to play fast. Two-handed tapping, sweep picking, string skipping and octave tapping are some of the methods that can dramatically increase a player’s ability to …
First off, I’ve never been one to recommend overdoing it with scales. There’s certainly nothing wrong with learning scales, but just the mention of a scale is enough to turn beginning guitar players away. Nobody picks up the guitar to play scales. We pick it up to jam, to play songs, to do what it …
The guitar has a range of about three octaves. The notes for the guitar are notated on the traditional music staff an octave higher than they actually sound. The reason for this is to avoid having to split the notes between two staves. Guitar Notes For Songs Guitar notes for songs can be indicated in …
All Guitar scales are the same as any other scale. They use the same notes as other scales and the application is the same as with any other instrument. Just the mention of scales is enough to send some guitar players into a state of panic. Many guitarists play by ear and claim to want …
Guitar tab is a type of music notation specific to stringed instrument players and usually associated primarily with guitar players. Guitarists like tab because it is more visually accurate in the way it represents written music and tends to make more sense in a guitar player’s mind. Tab is nothing more than lines representing the …
I’m tempted to tell you there is no easy way to learn guitar, but that wouldn’t be entirely accurate. Learning to play guitar well and advancing as a guitar player does take hard work and dedication, but you can certainly learn the basics of playing guitar pretty easily, and with just a little practice, you …