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admin on Monday, June 28th, 2010 |
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Guitar chords chart can sometimes be confusing, especially when you are looking for diminished chords chart. Whilst other basic guitar chords are relatively easy to figure out and memorized, diminished 7 chords can be named with 4 different names for a single chord shape. A beginning guitarist may find it difficult to determine what the root note of that particular chord as well as placing the diminished chords in the chords progression. Unlike the power chords that can be played safely because they don’t have minor or major indicator note (missing the third note), a diminished chord is most of the time used for the 7th note on the scale only. If you are playing in C for example than the diminished chord can be applied on the B, being the 7th note on the C major scale.
OK, enough frightening words. Let us see some examples below:
Why does one guitar fretboard chart have four different names? To answer this question we first have to understand the concept of the natural chords or major chords: Read the rest of this entry »
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admin on Wednesday, March 24th, 2010 |
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Guitarists are insatiable learners and the world is full of great guitar learning material. First of all, there are countless tablature books which show you in the easy-to-learn guitar tablature format how to play all your favorite songs even if you can’t read sheet music. If you can read sheet music, then there is sheet music available for every popular artist and thousands of classical and lesser-known composers. There are also “method books” that teach how to play a particular style, and there are instructional guitar DVDs that show you and tell you everything a single guitarist knows how to do. There are books with CDs full of audio examples, there are DVDs that come with tablature books; the list of available guitar learning resources is endless.
Guitar lessons are still the number one way that guitarists pick up new information. In-person guitar lessons with a local guitar teacher are probably the most effective way to learn new things about the guitar. The world is full of part-time and full-time guitar teachers, who put their heart and soul into teaching their students how to be an ever-improving guitar learning machine. Guitar teachers are expensive, however, and not everyone has the money or the time to commit to in-person lessons. So while this is a truly effective method, it is not for everyone.
Over the last 5 years, online guitar lessons have become an outstanding resource for guitarists wanting to learn guitar at a convenient pace and at very low cost. In my opinion, online guitar lessons have come of age, and are now the best tool for learning guitar available to anyone anywhere. I don’t propose that online guitar lessons should supplant books, sheet music, DVDs, and in-person guitar lessons. What I would like to suggest is that online guitar lessons are more convenient, cheaper, more useable, and provide more breadth of information than any other method available. Read the rest of this entry »
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TJ on Tuesday, September 1st, 2009 |
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Beginning guitarists tend to put more attention to the fretting hand / fingers and forget that the other hand needs practicing as well. While it is important to play the notes / chords accurately it is also important to produce a good quality of notes or chords by developing the right hand (for right handed guitarists) techniques.
There are some ways to strike your guitar strings but the most two important are strumming and picking techniques. Read the rest of this entry »
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TJ on Friday, July 24th, 2009 |
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An arpeggio is simply the notes of any given chord played or sung in succession rather than simultaneously. You can play every chord as an arpeggio just by playing one note at a time, in any order (arpeggiated picking). Read the rest of this entry »
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TJ on Saturday, July 18th, 2009 |
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Guitar tapping technique is very popular amongst electric guitar players. Whether you play the guitar with heavy distortion or just use the clean sound you can always find the benefit of this technique. Some people prefer holding the pick with their thumb and index fingers and do the tapping with the mid finger while others might feel they have better control doing it with the index finger. There is really no right and wrong about this, it’s all about preference. But like anything else guitar tapping really takes practice and patience to master. This technique basically implements the hammer on and pull off together. Read the rest of this entry »
