Like alternate tunings, slide, whammy bars, and tremolo effect pedals, there is a time and a place for every guitar technique known to man. Shredding guitar is no different. Steve Vai recently conducted a Reddit Ask Me Anything forum, and one of the questions pertained to shredding. And Vai gave a very simple but powerful …
As Bernie Taupin once wrote and Elton John sang, the sad songs say so much, don’t they? There probably isn’t a guitar player on the planet that hasn’t at some point been in the mood to play a mournful ballad, or strum a tender melody of loss and regret. On the other hand, there’s Eric …
Guitar isn’t the first instrument that comes to mind when contemplating Romantic Guitar Songs – mostly I think of sappy string sections or Barry Manilow playing a grand piano. However, there are hundreds if not thousands of romantic guitar songs, and many of them are fairly to ridiculously easy to play. So, for those nights …
What up guitar fans, Darrin Goodman here with another little guitar lesson for ya’, today I will be talking about exotic guitar scales What makes an exotic guitar scale is a loaded question and depends on where you are coming from as to what “exotic” means, but if you are in the western world like …
Hey, how’s it going this is Claude Johnson with Guitar Control, I’m going to show you how to play “Woman Across the River” by Freddie King. It’s basically a blues but there’s some twists that are not going to be your normal twelve bar blues. So it starts off the Intros G7 to F7 to …
During my first year of learning to play guitar, I practiced regularly – mainly chords and songs – and was generally satisfied with my progress. But after learning the three main chord groups (major, minor, and dominant – basically enough to play every Beatle song in their catalog), plus the major and minor scales, I …
There are two main elements of learning to play the guitar: Psychological and physical. Unquestionably, the most important psychological part of learning to play the guitar is personal motivation. It doesn’t matter where you are, what kind of guitar you have, or what type of music you want to play. The question is: How bad …
Sup fellow guitar freaks, Darrin Goodman here with another little bit of guitar goodies for ya’. Today I want to give you a little electric guitar lesson on a really important technique, alternate picking. Alternate picking is basically where you don’t do two down strokes or two upstrokes in a row. This is very important …
Looking for easy guitar tabs acoustic? Darrin Goodman here with another little lesson for you today. There is nothing like a cool acoustic guitar riff and today I thought I would share a couple of easy ones with you. The acoustic guitar is often associated with country music, so I thought a couple of country …
Good day guitar gurus, Darrin Goodman here with a couple Fun And Easy Guitar Riff Tabs For Beginners for you today. As a guitar teacher I understand the frustration that new guitarists have when first starting out; knowing what you want to play, but not being able to play it yet. You must crawl before …