Updated on Wednesday the 10th of August 2011
This is a brand new website run by one man, so please bear with me for content. Eventually I hope that this website will become a useful resource for guitar players of all levels. I will focus on all aspects of guitar playing from general knowledge on guitars and guitar equipment to advice on playing styles and lessons on music theory, and everything in between.
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In addition to written articles, I will be providing useful links, tools, pictures and diagrams to help with your guitar playing and I will also be recording video lessons with my Logitech 9000 pro high definition webcam and Shure SM57 microphone.
Updated on the 15th of August 2011 at 12:11pm
Chords Wikipedia defines a chord as “any set of notes that is heard as if sounding simultaneously”, so technically if you play any two or more notes together then you have just played a chord. Bravo. Now trying to figure out what chord you have just played and how you could use it in a piece of music is a…
Updated on the 29th of March 2011 at 12:30pm
There are a few elements key to being a great guitarist. Maybe this rant will help you figure out where to start or go to next. Firstly, you’ll need information and documentation to help you along the learning path. You’ll need to understand what guitar people are talking about when they mention things like frets, notes, chords, tabs, hammer-ons, pull-offs,…
Updated on the 11th of March 2011 at 6:05pm
Well here’s my first video lesson for a song. Tabs for my version of this song can be downloaded here. Video Lesson Full Song
Updated on the 14th of February 2011 at 12:21am
“Music theory is the science of producing patterns of sound pleasing to the human ear.” – Me. I am definitely no master of music theory, I have no formal training. All that I know has been pieced together through my years of experience struggling with the guitar, about ten; and from lessons similar to this that I’ve found on the internet; but I…
Updated on the 14th of February 2011 at 12:20am
Scales A scale is specific pattern of notes that ascends or descends through an octave. The scale can be transposed (a fancy word for moved) into any key simply by shifting the whole scale pattern up or down so that the root(first) note corresponds to the desired key. If this makes no sense to you just keep reading. So, from…
Updated on the 17th of January 2011 at 2:17am
You have heard of notes right? They are named using these, and only these, letters of the alphabet: A, B, C, D, E, F G. These are known as whole notes and there are only seven. Each note is just a certain frequency (pitch) of a sound. For example, the note ‘A’ might have a sound frequency of 440 Hertz. Meaning when a sound wave is vibrating 440 times…
Updated on the 13th of January 2011 at 3:15pm
The Guitar Neck and Head-stock: Guitar necks are generally very similar across acoustic and electric guitars excluding stratocasters which have a different layout with six machine heads in a row rather than three on each side and some spanish guitars look a little different to the neck shown here, but fundamentally they all serve the same function and have the…
