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Learn the importance of knowing open guitar chords
Guitar chords are the basis of thousands of songs. It is more important to know a large number of chords for guitar rather than just learning where the notes are. The chords incorporate the notes into playing. An open chord is one where there is [...]
Learn the basic parts of the guitar and what they are for
When learning any new skill you must first learn the fundamentals. What I am here to teach you today is what the electric guitar parts, and what their function is. It is important that you know these parts of the guitar. [...]
Chord progressions are the backbone of the song. They are basically a serious of chords played in the same key that make up the song. With the chord progressions as the backbone it sets the rules as to what notes can be played. It determines where the harmonies of the song will [...]
Barre chords are a unique type of guitar chord. They are essentially a movable guitar chord. The term barre refers to barring every string at a certain fret with a finger. What I mean by this is taking your index finder and lets say you barre the entire 3rd fret. Every [...]
Alternate picking is something that you will need to implement into your guitar skills. It teaches beginner players, who usually always down stroke or up stroke.
While this will be fine when you are first learning, you will want to learn this at some point to increase the fluid motion and efficiency of using this technique. [...]
Learn the basics of the guitar technique of tapping
Tapping is the process of using your stringing fingers to do fast hammer-on and pull-offs and using your picking hand to tap a fret further down the board in-between those hammer-ons and pull-offs. Once you have mastered hammer-ons and pull-offs tapping should not be difficult it [...]
There are many different methods out there on how to string a guitar. I’m sure a lot of them work fine. There’s one method I’ve learned that is the simplest and most effective method I have seen, that doesn’t require pointless wrapping and wrapping of the sometimes too short strings around the tuner [...]
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What is pitch? Straight from Dictionary.com :
“(in music, speech, etc.) the degree of height or depth of a tone or of sound, depending upon the relative rapidity of the vibrations [...]
Even before you make the decision you want to buy a guitar, even if you have the time and the money, you have to know that playing a guitar – or any instrument – is an investment in that time and money. You have to be realistic with yourself and know that you will [...]