So, you’ve decided that a guitar is the right instrument for you? Great! There are a few guitar basics every beginning player should know with regards to the parts of a guitar, and we’re including them here below for you. Knowing how to refer to certain parts of your guitar will help you in your …
Guitar licks are great for beginning guitar players to practice. They are repeating patterns that occur in many songs, so by learning only a few, you’ll have a better grasp of some of your favorite solos. Below, we have a few easy guitar licks for you to try out. They each came from a popular …
A large reason for why many people initially pick up the guitar is because they absolutely love that heavy, raw sound they hear in songs by their favorite bands. Well, now, you can learn how to play like them too, specifically with palm-muting, speed and rhythm. These things are very common in punk and metal …
For a beginning guitar player, there are a lot of challenges. There’s learning the individual notes on the fretboard, learning proper posture, and dealing with coordinating both hands at once. And then, on another level, there are chords. For beginners, guitar chords are one of the hardest things to do, because doing them right involves …
Whether you’re a beginning bass player or a beginning guitar player, scales are extremely important and necessary for you to expand your abilities and take on new challenges. And for any bass player, they should be an integral part of your practice schedule. Below, we’re going to show you some Beginner Bass Guitar Scales. There …
Guitars are extremely versatile instruments, and probably one of the factors that makes them so versatile are their capacity for chords, which are three or more notes played simultaneously. For many other instruments, chords aren’t possible, such as with flutes or clarinets, but that’s the beauty of stringed instruments, and most famously, the guitar. So …
Guitar is a very popular instrument and everywhere you go, you’ll probably run into someone who knows how to play at least a bit. In today’s world, learning how to play guitar is made even easier by all the online guitar lessons that are available and at your fingertips at any time. While there’s nothing …
Hey y’all-CMC here. Today’s topic is rhythm guitar. What comes to your mind? Hey, a million sounds come to mine. Creedence Clearwater Revival! I can just hear John Fogerty singing “rollin…rollin…rollin on the ree-ver.” Such simple chords and rhythms, back and forth, back and forth. Then I can hear a similar and yet oh so …
Hey kids- it’s CMC here, writing to you from under the Hollywood sign. Grace and peace, y’all. I want to talk to you briefly again, today about PLAYING GUITAR. How awesome is that? I mean, how can anyone even begin to write about something so awesome, so creative, artistic…so musical, so freakin’ crazy good? But …