I’ve heard the phrase that nothing in life is free. That’s not always the case. The Internet is full of free stuff for guitar players. When I was learning, long before there was an Internet, I had to hope there was sheet music available for a song I wanted to learn, or I had to …
Acoustic guitar playing is one of the purest forms of guitar playing. With an electric guitar, you have volume and guitar effects that can help process what you play or give it a different sound. With an acoustic, there’s nothing to come between you and what you play. For this reason, a lot of beginning …
Classical guitar playing is often considered more difficult to play than other types of music. A lot of beginning guitar players shy away from it for fear they aren’t capable of learning classical guitar or that they don’t have the discipline. Lots of rock players may be afraid it isn’t cool to play classical, when, …
A lot of people who pick up the bass might do it initially with the false belief that bass guitar is easier to play than guitar because it has less strings. In fact, I’ve heard quite a few people actually say this. Maybe that’s true to an extent, particularly when it comes to forming chords, …
The old saying goes, if you play bass guitar, you’ll always work. That’s because there are a lot of guitar players. Everybody wants to be the guitar player. The guitar player gets the girls, the bass player gets the work. That’s not always the case, but there are a lot of guitar players out there, …
I’ve often thought that the phrase “jazz rhythm guitar” is redundant, mainly due to the fact that in jazz big bands of the 1930s and 40s, the guitarist was considered an essential part of the rhythm section (guitar, drums and bass). They usually played four strums to the bar, although an amount of harmonic improvisation …
As much as it pains me to say, James Hetfield is probably the best metal rhythm guitarist of all-time, and if you’re in the mood for some four-on-the-floor, 8th-note triplet chugging, look no further than the first three or four Metallica records. In my opinion, having slogged through a version of “Battery” or two in …
There are going to be times in life when you need a hard copies of stuff. Though there is far less paperwork involved in our day-to-day routines, guitar players will eventually find themselves in a position where they will need printable guitar scales, chord charts, and maybe even song lyrics. Having learned to play guitar …
Shred is a fairly subjective cultural term used by guitarists and enthusiasts of guitar music, and as a result, the concept of shredding on guitar is probably misunderstood by the general population of guitar players who have less than zero desire to play as many notes as possible within a particular span of time. And …
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