The guitar has always been considered the ultimate rock instrument. Throughout the history of music there’ve been some cool guitar songs written that highlight the many facets of what makes the guitar such a beautiful, versatile instrument. It’s hard to pinpoint what makes a cool guitar song, but just about any guitar player knows it …
Most blues guitar music is improvised, meaning the guitarist simply makes up the licks as he goes along. It’s been this way throughout the history of the blues. This being the case, however, it’s a good idea for beginning guitar players to at least give the form a little study before plunging in. One way …
Playing the blues is more about feeling than the technical knowledge you have of the form. It helps to know that a blues scale is a major scale with a flatted third, flatted fifth, and flatted seventh, (or a minor pentatonic with a diminished 5th), but this is only theory and means nothing if you …
So, you’ve done the impossible and learned how to successfully play the slide guitar (or you’ve started to learn). As you’re probably aware, it is challenging, inventive, and about as unique as guitar playing gets. You can play with a slide or even an empty bottle in a manner that must be tons of fun …
Ready for some acoustic blues guitar lessons? Its Darrin again with some more tasty guitar giblets for you, today let’s look at some acoustic blues. When think about the blues guitar you gotta give mad props to the acoustic guitar because that’s where it all started with guys like Robert Johnson. Here is a great …
Joshua Olivieri here, fellow guitarists, bringing you the latest tips for learning the guitar online. Learning guitar has become a much simpler task in our time thanks to the wealth of knowledge and cat videos known as the internet. More guitarists nowadays choose not to hire a teacher and instead teach themselves with the many …
Blues guitar is key as you develop your skills as a musician. Nearly every genre (rock, metal, country) is an evolved form of blues. They were built upon the foundation that the blues laid down. It is especially necessary if you want to be a rock and roll player. Before you begin learning the wide …
When you’re first learning to play the guitar, there are a lot of things to learn. You have to figure out how to do things that aren’t as fun as playing your guitar, things like tuning, stringing and holding your guitar. Once you figure out the basics, you have to learn how basic chord shapes …
CMC here. Today’s lesson is on the guitar pentatonic scale. The Pentatonic scale is to rock and roll, what airplanes, cars, the internet and Movies are to modern civilization; something so ubiquitous as to create chaos if it weren’t there. Hey maybe that’s why punks weren’t into it. It’s really cool and fun to use. …
So you need a little GUITAR PRACTICE, huh? Well, you’ve come to the right place! CMC here. Let’s talk about it. At my peak, I practiced scales up to six hours a day. I grew. I learned. I shredded. My fingers became like butter. They became like water. I played like Adrian Belew, who’s playing …