Are you a fan of country music? Do you have an acoustic guitar handy? If so, you can probably learn to play the four songs discussed here with relative ease, provided you already have a few basic guitar skills. If you understand song structure, rhythm and strumming patterns, and you’re able to fluidly switch between …
How to Choose the Best Electric Guitar for Beginners? If you’re a beginning player looking to get your first electric guitar, it’s important to consider a few factors before making a final purchase. It’s likely this guitar will stick with you for a while, so you want to make sure you’re happy with it. The …
Why Scales are So Important for Your Solos? Anyone who has picked up an instrument before, no matter which one it was, has probably heard of scales. But do you know why that is? Do you know why everyone stresses the importance of scales, and learning and practicing them? Especially if you’re learning jazz guitar …
An acoustic guitar is a good choice for beginning players who enjoy singing-songwriting, strumming, and classical music. It’s also good if you don’t have a lot of space for an amplifier, or if you’re looking to keep the noise level down. Before you go out to your local music shop to make a purchase, make …
Have you written a song on your guitar that you’d like to put into tablature? Or did you want to tackle tabbing one of your favorite songs to share with your friends or online? If so, here are some tips to help you write your very own tabs for guitar! Already Have the Song Memorized …
What are guitar tabs? Guitar tablature makes it easy for guitar players to read songs without having to understand standard music notation. Tablature (TAB) is a system for writing and reading music that’s more logical for musicians who play stringed instruments. While TAB is most often associated with guitar players, mandolin, ukulele, banjo, and other …
It’s understood among guitar players that playing classical songs is a great way to learn technique and improve playing skills. Whether it’s a classical song written specifically for guitar or a concerto arranged for guitar, playing classical music can help expand your knowledge of music and improve our ability to play more complex stuff. The …
Tablature, referred by most as TAB, is a method of musical notation used by people who play stringed instruments. Using the TAB method, a song is represented in notation using lines to indicate strings and numbers to represent the fret numbers to be played. Many popular songs have been “tabbed” out for guitar players of …
Introduction A guitar is a versatile and popular instrument not only among aspiring musicians, but for those who simply want to play for the enjoyment of playing, or for those who want to be able to entertain family and friends. How you learn to play guitar depends in large part on what your end goal …
The blues is a musical form that can be traced back to African-American communities in the deep south near the end of the 19th century. Lyrically, the blues encompasses heartbreak in all its incarnations, including poverty, unrequited love, and death. The musicians who played and sang the blues were certainly in a position to be …