Jazz guitar can seem intimidating to newcomers. It often uses complex chords and harmonic structures, and learning the intricacies of jazz theory can take a long time. Fortunately, there are some tricks you can use to fake being way more knowledgeable about Jazz than you actually are! One foolproof trick is to have a set …
Hey, how’s it going this is Claude Johnson with Guitar Control, I’m going to teach you how to play the song called “Horse with no name” by America. This song doesn’t have very many chords we’ve got an E minor chord, we’ve got this chord which is a D, ad 9, D6 ad 9, but …
The Blues Scale Guitar is a musical form that almost every guitar player is familiar with whether he knows it or not. The blues has been around since at least the end of the 19th century and has been used in every genre of music from blues to rock to country. Regardless of the musical …
There’s a long-held belief that guitar players get all the girls and all the glory. This may or may not be true, but one thing’s for certain, bass guitar is the glue that holds it all together. Bass guitar is the bridge between the drummer and the rest of the band. There are lots of …
For as long as I can remember, guitar players have always enjoyed note-for-note tablature (TAB) versions of the songs they want to play. In the early days of TAB the focus was on guitar, while bass players were left to figure out bass lines by ear. Something happened to change that. Maybe some bass player …
It can be frustrating when you first decide you want to learn to play guitar. If you’ve never played one before, you have no idea where to start or what you need to learn to even get more than a few unpleasant sounds out of the instrument. You can always get a guitar teacher, but …
Check out this free lesson from Guitar Control “Learn How To Play The Chromatic Scale on guitar” with free guitar tabs. Guitar Scale For the beginning and intermediate student learning guitar scales, you may be facing a confusing and daunting task. At the outset, you have to ask yourself, why do I want to learn …
The most important aspect of any kind of musical instruction is finding the right teacher or method for you. No two guitar players are alike, but online guitar lessons are literally a dime a dozen. There are only so many ways you can demonstrate a pentatonic blues lick. At some point, it comes down to …
If you’ve got an Internet connection and a computer (or a phone or tablet), you can learn guitar online. The online world is filled with high-quality lessons of all types—everything from basic beginner lessons to more advanced playing techniques and fretboard theory. You can learn how to read tablature or standard music notation, how to …
There’s no set way to learn how to play guitar. People are different and everybody has their own way of learning. Maybe you learn better in a classroom setting or with a private teacher, and maybe you’re the type of person who works better on your own, reading everything out of books. There are certainly …