If you’re just getting started on guitar here is a list of easy guitar songs to get you started. Be sure to read the entire article as there are tips on how to find and learn the chords as well as for dealing with dominant 7, maj7 and min7 chords.
The guitar is one of the deepest of musical instruments. You can be as good or as bad as you wish. You can even play very well without knowing much theory. That’s if you have a good ear and a keen feeling for the instrument. However, the more time you dedicate to the guitar, the better.
Throughout this site you will encounter various diagrams that will show you a visual representation of what you will learn to play. These diagrams are slightly customized for my lessons, but they are very similar to what most books and teachers use as a standard. Most authors don’t go through all the trouble of identifying…
These 10 essential and basic guitar chords can get you easily started on guitar and playing a good number of songs. You can also learn the major bar chord shape which will allow you to play any of these chords up the neck. Start here if you are new to guitar.
How many times have you met a player that plays awesome metal guitar but falls apart when you ask them to play some funk? Or how about a player that can play great lead lines but turns into a heap of crap as soon as you present him with some latin or jazz rhythms? The…
Part 2 of the “Become a Great All Around Guitar Player” series goes into detail about the different levels you should aim to achieve. We also look into things to do in order to avoid falling into a guitar progression rut.
Playing guitar is probably one of the biggest forms of art where vintage gear (or the inspiration of it) plays the biggest role. Just think about it for a sec. If you flip through the pages of any major guitar catalog you’re bound to see dozens of products based on vintage gear. Not to mention…
There are basically 12 notes in music. So all modern music is based out of those 12 notes. All scales are born out of those 12 notes as well. These 12 notes are part of the chromatic scale. It would be safe to say that all the scales in western or modern music are born…
Before you get started, let me point out that the last lesson ended with an example of the major scale in G. I’ll will continue to teach you the rest of modes of the major scale based in G. I will be sticking to G because it’s a very popular key. Not only that, but…