Hey, music fans! What’s the word for today? Well, the word is: GUITAR MAJOR SCALE! Woop woop! (Sorry to get all dorky on you but major scales do rock, don’t they?!) CMC here with another mini-journey to your guitar greatness. So take a minute,pull up a chair and take a look. Nothing earth shattering here …
Yo, wassup! CMC here, peeps! What’s the word? Word is: GUITAR LESSON FOR BEGINNERS! We’ve been talking about this in previous articles and you may or may not have read them. So, bear with me and us- music is all about repetition, right? Practice (and repeating) makes perfect. We here at Guitar Control.com are here …
Hey Country Fans! CMC here. Welcome to another mini-shot of musical Espresso for all you guitar pickers, players and music appreciators, out there: Country Guitar Licks. You’ve found the right place- Guitar Control.com has everything you need to get in the groove and start playin’ some might tasty licks and chops on a variety of …
Hey Bluesmen and women! Wasssup? CMC here-today’s mini-shot of Blues Espresso is about blues scales guitar. You’ll find tons of stuff about this all over the net and our pros right here at Guitar Control have some great teaching tools you should check out as well. It’s amazing to me how they’ve assembled such a …
Whether you want to play electric or acoustic guitar, there’s never been a better time to do it. There are so many avenues available that were not so easily accessible when I was first starting out. I had access to guitar books and videos, but not like the access available today. I could access those …
Guitar lessons are an important part of learning to play guitar, but the type of guitar lessons any one beginning guitarist takes will vary. That’s because we all have our own way of doing things. Some of us work well in a group, or class, setting, some of us may work better with a teacher …
Tablature, guitar tab, TAB—whatever you call it, TAB is a method of notating music for stringed instruments and most often associated with guitar music. TAB in itself is easier for most guitar players to understand because it visually represents what needs to be played. The example below shows how to read TAB. Chords would be …
Almost any song can be played on guitar by a beginner who’s willing to put in just a little bit of time practicing. Some beginners may be capable of listening to any song and playing it by ear, but for those who can’t, there are plenty of easy arrangements of guitar songs you can use …
Pop songs, ballads, country, classical, folk, and old standards are all song genres that have Acoustic Guitar Songs. In recent years unplugged shows have become popular, where classic rock and metal bands present songs originally written for electric guitar on acoustic. What constitutes a good acoustic guitar song? This is a question that’s hard to …
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 …